Family Birth Center & Special Care Nursery

Contributions in support of St. Anthony’s Family Birth Center maintain an advanced Special Care Nursery with neo-natal specialists to help our most vulnerable patients overcome respiratory difficulties, cardiac distress, premature birth and additional special care needs.

These gifts also enable St. Anthony’s to be the only hospital in the area to provide complimentary follow-up visits and lactation counseling to more than 1500 new mothers who deliver at St. Anthony’s annually. Ensuring that our infants are thriving, nutritional needs are being met, parental stress is being addressed and that families are paired with excellent pediatric care.

Please support our Family Birth Center and Special Care Nursery with a gift today.

NEW – Join the CRADLE CLUB in support of St. Anthony’s Family Birth Center. Celebrate your new arrival or make a gift in honor of your nurse or physician by making a gift of $50 or more. Your baby’s footprint, name and birthday will be added to the Cradle Club Footprint Wall in the birth center.

Your gift today, ensures the health and vitality of infants in need of special care tomorrow.

Seeing my newborn fight a life-threatening blood sugar complication in her first week of life was heartbreaking, but thanks to the team of skilled and caring medical professionals at St. Anthony’s Special Care Nursery, she is now a happy and healthy toddler!

- Elizabeth Sommerhauser, Ivy’s Mom

Baby Ivy in the Special Care Nursery 2010

Ivy as a toddler playing

Baby Ivy enjoying life 2011