Starting today, Barcelona has a new Maternity Hospital at the HM Nou Delfos Hospital, which, as the company states in a statement, “was born under the current concept of what it means to be a mother and with the aim of responding to the needs of families.”
The new HM Nou Delfos Maternity Hospital, coordinated by doctors Carmen Medina and Andrea Molina, thus closes the remodeling that HM Hospitales began in the hospital in 2018. Its facilities, its “state-of-the-art” technological equipment and its professional team “make it possible to place “put the mother and her baby at the center of the care process, and provide comprehensive care in an environment of well-being and trust.”
Dr. Andrea Molina explains that “HM Hospitales’ childbirth care project is focused on transforming the experience of giving birth, prioritizing respect for women, their ability to make informed decisions and a deep understanding of the physiology of childbirth. . Each woman has a unique experience when having a child, and our purpose is to provide a supportive environment in which they are the protagonists of their own process.”
With this philosophy and the appropriate protocols, Dr. Carmen Medina hopes to reduce the number of unnecessary interventions (cesarean sections, inductions, instruments, episiotomies, etc.), one of the main workhorses of private healthcare in this area “Our “The protocols want to respect the time of the physiological process of childbirth, the autonomy of the woman, make shared decisions between professionals and families and act only when necessary.”
However, both remember that safety is a priority and, therefore, on those occasions in which professionals must intervene to guarantee maternal and fetal well-being, it will be done following protocolized actions based on scientific evidence.
With an investment of one million euros, the HM Nou Delfos Maternity Hospital has spacious, modern facilities and advanced technological equipment. The new space has a Level II neonatal ICU with the capacity to accommodate 7 babies at the same time; two Labor and Recovery Units (UTPR), one of which has a bathtub; delivery rooms; 17 hospitalization rooms and a 24-hour Emergency Service.
Although the HM Nou Delfos Maternity Hospital will, from now on, bring together all the births of women in Catalonia who decide to be treated by HM Hospitals when they become mothers, pregnancy monitoring may continue to be carried out in any of the centers that the Group has in the territory, with which it will work in a coordinated manner. The medical director of HM Nou Delfos, Dr. Julio García Prieto, assures that “we will have the pregnancy monitoring data for each patient through the HM Hospitales shared Clinical History program. Likewise, patients will have a gestational control book, in which each referring gynecologist will write down the data of the different tests that are performed on the future mother as her pregnancy progresses.”
