Arnold Palmer Hospital Admissions Desk ( *

Arnold Palmer Hospital

Admissions desk ( * Birth is imminent or past ( mother and/or baby taken to a room and admitted when the mother is in bed ( Mother is taken to Labor and Delivery Triage for exam. If birth is too far distant ( the mother is sent home. If the baby is born and there are no complications, then ( after birth, the mother and child are transferred to a room where they will stay for three to four days.

*If birth is not imminent, then the mother is admitted if she is preregistered (If not registered, then she is sent to registration. After she is registered, she is sent to Labor and Delivery Triage. If birth is too far distant ( the mother is sent home. If the baby is born and there are no complications, then ( after birth, the mother and child are transferred to a room where they will stay for three to four days.

**If complications, then the mother and/or baby are sent to surgery or intensive care ( if needed, the baby is sent to neonatal intensive care ( when mother and baby are ready, discharged separately or together ( delivered in wheelchair to car.

2. A clear improvement for this process would be to have the different aspects of maternity care on the same floor, or at least more of the services on the same floor. As it is, women have to go up and down eight floors in the building, which if they are walking will be a strain for them physically because this is not the kind of undertaking that is in the best interests of pregnant women. If they are in a wheelchair accompanied by a staff member, this is still a stressful procedure for the patient as well as expensive in terms of staff time and effort.

2. If the mother were scheduled to have a Caesarian section, then she would in all likelihood be pre-registered. Therefore, after arriving at the hospital, she would be taken to pre-op to be prepared for the surgery and then into surgery, to recovery, and then discharged.

3. If all mothers were pre-registered, then this would simplify the chart above so that rather than some mothers being rerouted to the registration office they would be sent directly to Labor and Delivery Triage or to a room where the mother can recover if the baby has already been born.