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Hospital L&D Tour - NY Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center

  1. Number of deliveries per year (5,600)
  2. Cesarean Section rate (Risk, age, para; adjusted lower than national rate)
  3. Whom to call in emergency
  4. Make sure to turn off anonymous call rejection (*87 disable; *77 enable)
  5. Answer phone
  6. Make sure you have your car parked safely
  7. 24/7 child care, house sitting arranged (What if ROM at 2 AM Saturday night?)
  8. When to call (PROM, early labor, high-risk, complications, twins etc)
  9. Physician’s coverage
  10. Where to enter hospital -  “dry run”
  11. Car and parking
  12. Triage rooms
  13. Single rooms vs. semi-private (how much, where, how, availability)
  14. Who can stay in room (semi-private no one)
  15. How long stay in hospital CS vs. vaginal
  16. Baby staying longer in CCN - jaundice, sepsis
  17. Circumcision who does it and where?
  18. Where is the nursery?
  19. What security measures are in place for the maternity ward? [Security bracelets]
  20. How do you identify the people who are allowed to take the baby? Purple tag.
  21. What are the visiting hours?  No restrictions, but pay attention to neighbor
  22. Peds rounds daily with moms
  23. Lactation consultants available for consultation; Responsibility of primary nurse
  24. Education postpartum (groups, videos)
  25. Where is the cafeteria?
  26. What is the process for ordering food? Pick up food downstairs.
  27. Take-out food/Where is the snack machine?
  28. What to pack for L&D? 
  29. Videotaping versus photography; Make yourself familiar with new equipment. No pictures with other babies.
  30. Siblings in room and age? Supervision of children, in waiting, short visits during labor; not delivery 
  31. Family waiting
  32. Doulas
  33. Routine procedures (shaving, enema, IVs, NPO)
  34. Eating during labor
  35. When being admitted? Active labor, ruptured membranes, early labor, complications 
  36. Epidural availability and asking for it
  37. Indications for cesareans
  38. Residents and PAs and attendings and nurses
  39. One support person during cesarean
  40. Two during normal delivery
  41. Cord blood collection (public versus private)     
  42. Eat after NSVD and after cesarean
  43. Routine Episiotomy?
  44. Enema?
  45. IV
  46. Forceps/Vacuum           
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