Birth
Center

Nurturing your sense of family from the very start, St. Joseph's Hospital's experienced Birth Center nurses give extra attention to detail, in a secure environment of warmth, caring and sharing. As the only hospital delivering babies in Chippewa County, we have a unique standard of care for a community our size. Our board-certified obstetricians and family practitioners delivered over 525 babies last year.

The private birthing rooms offer a home-like atmosphere to make the birthing experience as comfortable as possible. Caesarean births are performed in an operating room within the Birth Center. With your physician's consent, St. Joseph's Hospital offers father-attended caesarean births. State-of-the-art medical equipment is available in our nursery should complications arise.

Once your little one has made his or her grand entrance, trained nursing professionals care for you and your baby as a couplet, ensuring continuity of care for both of you. We also offer you many opportunities to learn to care for yourself and your baby. Our nurse educators can assist you on a one-to-one basis as requested.

Bed, Breakfast and Baby is a service that allows you and your baby to enjoy an extra day of rest in the Birth Center, following your discharge from the hospital. For an additional fee, you and your baby can enjoy an extra night's stay and meals for you and baby's father in a private room. Nursing staff will be available to answer any questions you might have.

St. Joseph's Hospital is a designated Safe Place for newborns. The Safe Haven Law allows mothers, fathers or whoever is in possession of an unharmed newborn, approximately three days old or less, to leave them at a designated Safe Place with no questions asked, anonymously and free from fear of prosecution. We will contact a participating private adoption agency who will then arrange for placement of the newborn with a waiting family.