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4- The Oakville Beaver, Tuesday December 23, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Maternal Child Unit can't wait for new hospital now and then." The proposed renovations, currently scheduled to be done over a sevenmonth period beginning in April, will affect significant portions of the Maternal Child Unit including the area's labour, delivery and recovery rooms (LDR rooms). "These are rooms where women come when they're in labour, they actually give birth and then they stay in one of these rooms until they're DAVID LEA / OAKVILLE BEAVER ready to go over to one of MATERNAL CARE: Maternal Child Program Leader Cindy MacDonald and Sandro Paulozza, manager of our postpartum rooms," capital projects with Halton Healthcare Services (HHS), stand inside a newly-renovated postpartum/pediatric said MacDonald. room in Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH). 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(At Martin St.) (Fairview / Appleby) (Fairview/Appleby) (at Battleford Centre in the The current Special NextHorton's Plaza) Behind McDonald's Behind McDonald's Tim to Scotia Bank Care Nursery is made up of one room, which holds BOXING WEEK HOURS: FRI. 10-8pm Sat. 9-6pm Sun. 11-5pm Mon. 10-6pm Tues. 10-6pm Wed. 10-3pm BOXING WEEK HOURS: FRIDAY26, 10-8pmSUNDAY 11-5pm MONDAY 10-6pm TUESDAY 10-6 WEDNESDAY 10-3pm eight incubators containing Continued from page 1 "We have the privilege of being at the birth of between 2,300 to 2,400 babies a year and if you multiply that by the six or seven years it's going to take to get to the new hospital that's a lot of new lives we want to provide care for," said MacDonald. 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When you take into account visiting relatives and the necessary equipment, the room can get quite crowded and intrusive, but that is something MacDonald hopes the renovations will change. "We will have some more discreet areas for parents to have some privacy," she said. "What we've found over the last three to five years is that our length of stay for babies in there has tripled and that's a good thing because that means we're really able to provide care for babies that need to be there, but what happens then is we have parents, who are in that environment for a week, two weeks, three weeks. So, we want to be able to provide them with an area where they can have a little bit of privacy instead of just sitting in the open concept area." To accomplish this task, the Special Care Nursery will be expanding to allow for each of the eight incubators to have its own cubical-like area that can be separated from the main room with a curtain. Each of these little rooms will include a closet for a visitor to put their things and a chair so a parent can actually sit down while they visit with their child. These renovations will also see an isolation room placed in the Special Care Nursery, something MacDonald said is essential. "What we found during the SARS Crisis is that we couldn't really fulfill our role in the regional system because there were babies from other hospitals that needed to be isolated and we had nowhere to isolate them," said MacDonald. MacDonald noted that all these changes appropriately reflect the time period the hospital is now functioning in as more emphasize is now placed on interaction between parents and babies while the baby is still in the hospital. The Maternal Child Unit will continue to function during its seven months of renovations. ING UR OA M FE AT nt il M EM ORY F