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Nurses Julia Harris (left) and Peggy Ayers assemble one of nine neonatal intensive care units in the new Women’s Center at CTMC. Ashley Landis

November 19, 2009

Grand opening to feature $35 million expansion

By Ashley Landis The San Marcos Record Thu Nov 19, 2009, 11:21 AM CST

Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC) will hold a grand opening on Sunday, when the public will get its first glimpse inside the new Women’s Center expansion.

The $35 million, 64,000 sq. ft. facility will expand the hospital to 150 beds, all of which are in private rooms.

“It’s not your old CTMC,” Kale Bowen, CTMC public affairs, said.

The first floor Women’s Center includes a high risk delivery suite, seven labor and delivery rooms, a laboring tub, a triage room, an antepartum room, two operating rooms for cesarean-sections, 18 post partum rooms and a nine-bed neonatal intensive care (NICU) facility.

“Every space and service has been designed to provide a peaceful, healing atmosphere for mothers and families,” Lana Cameron, CTMC vice president of patient care services, said.

A room for the Cradle of Care program is included on the first floor. The program helps new mothers with breast feeding and concerns within the first few days with a new baby. Programs are offered in English and Spanish.

“They can call us with any little question,” Bowen said. “It takes some of the burden off of the pediatricians.”

There is a “Hill Country color scheme” of blues and browns and each room will include artwork that reflects native flowers and plants. Each room will also have a flat screen television and free Wi-Fi.

The Women’s Center opens for patients on Nov. 30.

On the second floor of the expansion, there is a 36-bed progressive care unit (PCU), in which every patient receives 24-hour cardiac monitoring.

“As a surgeon, sometimes you just get that sixth sense about a patient when you feel like there’s something wrong, but you’re not sure what it is,” Anna Anders said. “This floor allows us to monitor them.”

The second floor will open to patients on Dec. 2.

Other features for patients and visitors include nutrition stations, a gift shop, an online photo album of newborns and a healing garden.

The expansion is expected to bring 50 to 75 new full-time jobs for health care professionals, with an anticipated median income of $55,167, CTMC officials said.

The public is invited to tour the new facility from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The event will also feature cup cakes, sundaes and other treats and activities for children and families.

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