Child Health Care
Under the direction of Ali Rabbani, MD, chief of Pediatrics, St. John Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) opened in 1970. St. John is also a regional referral center for high-risk pregnancies. Eight hundred fifty-five births took place in the first delivery rooms back in 1952 versus the 3,893 babies born in 2001 at the St. John Birthing center. The facility is able to serve 31 mothers, infants and families for labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum care.
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