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Proclamation congratulating the West Penn Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus upon the momentous occasion of the grand opening of the new Women's and Infants' Care Center.
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WHEREAS, on May 2, 2007 the Western Pennsylvania Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus will unveil the new Women's and Infants' Care Center; and
WHEREAS, the $5.5 million Women's and Infants' Care Center is a state-of-the art facility that will provide labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum services in a homelike setting; and
WHEREAS, as other local maternity units have closed, West Penn Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus is making a major investment in the health and well-being of the region's families; and
WHEREAS, the new center focuses on treating labor, birth, postpartum, and newborn care not as medical episodes but as life events that involve dynamic emotional, social and physical change; and
WHEREAS, the center includes 11 beautiful spacious suites equipped with built-in sleeper sofas for family members, rocking chairs, flat-screen televisions with VCR/DVD combos, and Jacuzzi tubs, not to mention a top-of-the-line security system that safeguards babies at all times; and
WHEREAS, other features of the center include a nine-bed nursery and a four-bed Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for premature and acutely ill infants;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Allegheny County Council does hereby congratulate the West Penn Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus upon the momentous occasion of the grand opening of the Women's and Infants' Care Center. This Council is proud to recognize the new Women's and Infants' Care Center which will support new families in Allegheny County.