Hospital unit will serve moms carrying babies with birth defects
May 16th, 2008From the Philadelphia Business Journal:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is getting ready to open what it says will be the first comprehensive medical unit in the world for pregnant women carrying a baby with a known birth defect.
The $20 million Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit is being established so CHOP’s fetal medicine and surgical specialists can provide care — from prenatal diagnosis to surgery or other medical intervention to postnatal follow-up care — all in one location.
The unit will open in stages over the next three weeks with deliveries expected to begin on or after June 9.
“Nobody else has this kind of dedicated space for the delivery of babies with birth defects,” said Dr. Lori Howell, executive director of Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at CHOP.
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