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The Holistic Birth Center at St. John West Shore Hospital has been developed to provide a familiar, warm, home-like environment where families can experience birth. When birth is integrated into life as a family event, the family is strengthened.
The staff of nurses, physicians, and midwives are committed to partnering with the chilbearing family to provide a safe and satisfying birth focusing on birth as normal. The home-like qualities, welcoming, reassuring, and professional nature of the staff embody the idea that birth is normal, yet emotionally powerful.
Women and families have the right to seek care that is medically safe, that reconizes and respects the individual's physical, social, spiritual, psychological and and economic needs. Women and families have the right and responsibilty to assume an active role in their own healthcare.
Education is an essential part of quality health care. Only when women and their families have real access to information are they able to assume an active role.
The birth center program of care is designed in the wellness model and quided by pricipals of prevention, sensitivity, safety and appropriate medical intervention.
Our goal is to nurture a woman's sense of personal strength and self confidence so that she may experience her own birth with dignity and empowerment.
The Holistic Birth Center
 
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