Rede D’Or inaugurates R$500 million maternity hospital in São Paulo

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Next Monday (15), Rede D’Or opens the São Luiz Star Maternity Hospital in Vila Olímpia, in a move to focus and expand care for pregnant women and free up the structure of the Itaim Bibi unit for highly complex surgeries.

The new building will have 22 floors and 173 beds, distributed in 77 apartments, 13 suites, 21 semi-intensive beds, four adult ICU beds and 58 neonatal ICU beds. The expectation is that 1,000 deliveries per month are carried out at the unit, 350 more than the average at the Itaim maternity ward, which will be deactivated.

“Excellence requires investment and approximately R$ 500 million was invested. Our purpose is to offer the best care. We want patients to feel calm, secure”, says José Jair James de Arruda Pinto, executive director of the São Paulo Regional Network Pain.

To provide security, the hospital will adopt a system of radio frequency identification (RFID) wristbands synchronized and linked to an alarm system. If the baby is taken to a place not provided for in their care, such as to the door of the emergency stairs, an alert will be issued and the doors of the unit will be locked, the security cameras will expand the focus on the indicated sector and the security team will be directed to the location. The same is true if the bracelet is cut.

Another measure to protect the patient will be the presence of the companion at all times. It will not be necessary to separate for dressing in the operating room, for example.

In addition, even when the patient wants an external care team, a hospital employee will accompany the delivery and activate the direction if something goes beyond the established protocols. “We are very careful with the teams. For hiring, in addition to presenting documents that prove the training and performance, it is necessary that the professional is indicated by a member of the hospital”, says Maria Augusta Gibelli, medical director of the maternity. Those hired undergo an annual performance evaluation, considering both technical and behavioral aspects.

The unit will have all the specialties for the care of pregnant women and newborns and will offer diagnostic imaging services, fetal surgery and neonatal surgery. According to Arruda Pinto, the network intends to attract high-complexity cases from different parts of Brazil, counting on the hospital’s helipad in Itaim. Investing in this type of case will help maintain maternity bills, a structure that traditionally generates less revenue than a general hospital.

For the moment of delivery, different scenarios were designed: arrival of the patient already in the expulsive period of labor, vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery and higher risk deliveries.

For the first case, a room was created on the ground floor, next to the passage for cars. The objective is to allow the patient who arrives in advanced labor to receive care as soon as she leaves the vehicle.

For humanized vaginal deliveries, eight rooms were installed with elements such as a bed with a bar, a chair for vertical delivery, a stool and a bathtub. “These are environments with chromotherapy, aromatherapy and music therapy, non-pharmacological pain relief resources”, says Gibelli. The intention is that 40% of deliveries in the unit take place in this modality, in which the patient can count on two companions and present the baby to the family using a video transmission system.

Cesarean sections will also take place in eight rooms, two with equipment for higher risk cases, such as placental accreta. In these cases, a companion is allowed and, if the patient authorizes it, the family can accompany part of the delivery through a wall of polarized glass.

After delivery, mother and baby go to the hired room, with a welcome kit in bed, Trousseau hygiene products and automation using Alexa. The family will be able to request a hut-shaped bed for the newborn’s older brother or sister, and visually impaired mothers will receive a sign with a 3D image of the baby’s face.

Parents will be able to purchase optional tests, such as the cheek test, to identify genetic problems, and the extended eye test, to identify problems such as retinoblastoma. There will be a center to detect neurological alterations and mothers will be accompanied by the Breastfeeding Support Group during their stay and after discharge.

“These are measures I would have liked to have offered at Hospital das Clínicas”, comments Gibelli, who made a career in the public service.

The hospital says that it will continue to accept all agreements that already operate in Itaim and, in the case of private care, the estimated value is R$ 17,900 for apartment accommodation, with the right to up to three nights and without medical fees. The value of the suites was not disclosed.

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