By Tracey Drury – Reporter, Buffalo Business First
Oct 7, 2022
Kaleida Health received state approvals for a $6.8 million project to create a unit for high-risk pregnancies.
The 12-bed antepartum unit at the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital will be created in an 11,000-square-foot space on the seventh floor currently used for pharmacy and pediatric outpatient services such as infusion and dialysis. Those services will move to the second floor.
Since 2012, the number of deliveries overall has increased by 35%, with total newborn deliveries reaching 3,500 last year. There has also been a corresponding increase in high-risk deliveries, with an average of 10 moms requiring rooms daily.
Currently, these patients occupy beds on the labor & deliver and mother-baby floors, rather than being concentrated in one unit.
The project transfers 12 bed licenses from Buffalo General Medical Center to Children’s, increasing total bed count from 185 to 191.
The additional rooms are expected to be completed by fall 2023.
In other health care news:
Oct 7, 2022
Kaleida Health received state approvals for a $6.8 million project to create a unit for high-risk pregnancies.
The 12-bed antepartum unit at the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital will be created in an 11,000-square-foot space on the seventh floor currently used for pharmacy and pediatric outpatient services such as infusion and dialysis. Those services will move to the second floor.
Since 2012, the number of deliveries overall has increased by 35%, with total newborn deliveries reaching 3,500 last year. There has also been a corresponding increase in high-risk deliveries, with an average of 10 moms requiring rooms daily.
Currently, these patients occupy beds on the labor & deliver and mother-baby floors, rather than being concentrated in one unit.
The project transfers 12 bed licenses from Buffalo General Medical Center to Children’s, increasing total bed count from 185 to 191.
The additional rooms are expected to be completed by fall 2023.
In other health care news:
- Rochester Regional Health received approvals for the next two phases of its $33.8 million RRH Batavia Destination Campus in Batavia at 8103 Oak Orchard Road. The 87,739-square-foot site will offer women’s health, primary care, ambulatory surgery and other specialties provided by Unity Hospital, Rochester General Hospital and United Memorial Medical Center.
- Catholic Health is expanding services at two hospital outpatient clinics. Mount St. Mary’s Hospital will add otolaryngology services at 6941 Elaine Drive in Niagara Falls. Mercy Hospital will add orthopedics at 27 Franklin St. in Springville.
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center is creating the city’s first community-based doula program for birthing support, prenatal and postpartum visits, education and service referrals. The program is funded by a $200,000 Blue Fund grant from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York.
John R. Oishei Children's Hospital gets OK to build $6.8M high-risk maternity unit - Buffalo Business First (bizjournals.com)
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