Maternity Care Center

South Jersey's Most Modern Family-Friendly Maternity Center with the look and feel of a Victorian Bed & Breakfast!
Shore Memorial Hospital's renowned Maternity Care Center provides a next-century level of care for today's expectant mothers.

The entire Maternity Care Center is designed to convey the elegance and inviting charm of a Victorian Bed & Breakfast Inn at the shore... a relaxed environment of extraordinary hospitality and personal service.

LDR/P All-In-One
Private Room Care...
Eleven LDR/P (Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum) rooms and 12 postpartum mother/baby rooms enable the new mother to receive all the services she needs right there - in a private, relaxed environment with family around her for support.

Each room features its own complete bathroom with all the amenities to help you feel at home. Although it looks and feels like a luxurious inn, behind the rich wood cabinet doors are the most advanced equipment and technology available today.

Our delivery suites for cesarean sections are located within the Maternity Care Center, so family members can stay close by, ready to welcome their newest addition.

Compassion, Expertise AND Technology:
A Special Combination
Our Maternity Care Center takes pride in its outstanding ability to combine compassionate care with clinical expertise and advanced technology.  Bedside centralized computer systems are integrated throughout the Center. Our highly skilled nurses utilize this advanced technology for monitoring mothers and babies, responding to any need.  Focusing on individual patient needs the whole time you are here, our staff nurtures, teaches and compassionately cares for new families. Additionally, a 24-hour security system protects our Maternity Care Center, giving you peace of mind throughout your stay.

Our Intermediate Neonatal Unit
with high-tech monitoring allows very sick or special-care newborns to remain with the mother rather than requiring transfer to another hospital.

CHOP Inpatient Program
at Shore Memorial Hospital
Shore Memorial's clinical affiliation with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) enables us to provide around-the-clock intermediate neonatal nursery care.  Highly trained CHOP pediatricians and specialty nurses are on site to assist your physician with care and consultation for difficult deliveries and complex newborn conditions.

Medical conditions that previously might have required a transfer to Philadelphia now can be expertly handled at Shore Memorial's Center. However, if a more intensive level of care is ever needed, our affiliation facilitates timely and efficient transport.

Maternal Fetal Medicine Program
During pregnancy, a woman’s medical needs are usually handled by an obstetrician, a physician who specializes in pregnancy, labor and delivery. However, sometimes a woman needs more specialized care than the obstetrician can provide, and she is transferred to a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, an obstetrician who has additional education and training in fetal medicine and high risk pregnancies.

Shore Memorial Hospital’s Maternity Care Center’s Maternal Fetal Medicine Program provides these expectant mothers with the specialized care they need without having to travel to Philadelphia.

Area residents have the option of visiting Robert Debbs, D.O., a maternal-fetal medicine specialist affiliated with Shore Memorial Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Debbs has an office location in Shore Memorial’s Outpatient Diagnostic Testing Center, at 649 Shore Road, corner of Shore Road and New York Avenue. He has office hours two Wednesdays each month and also every Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Dr. Debbs has over 10 years of maternal fetal medicine experience and is board certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

A pregnancy is considered high risk when there are potential complications that could harm the mother, fetus or both. Complications can exist prior to or during pregnancy and include:

• Heart disease
• Cervical insufficiency, a weakened cervix making a woman more likely to miscarry mid-term or have premature delivery
• High blood pressure or preeclampsia (toxemia), a form of high blood pressure brought on by pregnancy
• Placental problems
• Multiple gestation pregnancy (twins, triplets or more)
• Diabetes or other endocrine disorders
• Infectious diseases
• Kidney or gastrointestinal disease
• Premature rupture of membranes
• Recurrent pre-term labor and delivery
• Recurrent pregnancy loss
• Congenital abnormalities (birth defects)
• Later age pregnancy

For more information about Shore Memorial Hospital’s Maternal Fetal Medicine Program, call 653-3636.

Delivering Babies, Birthing a Family
Helping families care for their newborns before and long after they have left our Maternity Care Center is an important part of the service and support Shore Memorial provides with each delivery. Most of our multi-specialty nurses have more than 20 years of experience caring for mothers, babies and new families.

Our family-centered environment focuses on teaching and nurturing families as they develop the necessary skills to care for the new mother and baby.

Bathing, feeding, lactation, parenting and safety are among the many topics covered during inpatient care and classes.

Outpatient classes include preparing for childbirth and helping get  siblings ready for a new family member.

Come see for yourself. Ask your doctor to arrange a private tour, or call the hospital's Center for Women's Services at (609) 653-3900.

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