A New Addition at The Baby Place:

Enhancing our promise of exceptional care for moms and babies

Whether you’re a first-time mom or adding to your family, The Baby Place at AdventHealth offers a comprehensive, whole-person approach to maternity care. Our board-certified OB/GYNs, nursemidwives, expert pediatric providers and specially-trained nursing team work together to create a birth experience that eases your body, mind and spirit.

In January 2023, The Baby Place enhanced that collaborative care with the addition of the OB Hospitalist Group to its team of providers. Every patient coming to The Baby Place can count on an experienced OB hospitalist being on-site 24 hours a day to provide consistent, comprehensive, quality medical care to women who are pregnant or have just given birth.

The OB Hospitalist Group is the industry’s largest, dedicated OB/GYN hospitalist provider. The group’s board-certified clinicians are trained in best practices specific to OB hospitalist medicine.

The OB hospitalists are partners with your regular OB/GYN physician, so they will review your medical record and birth plan with your physician to accommodate your delivery wishes, depending on your medical circumstances.

If your obstetrician is unavailable or delayed in reaching the hospital, there is always an experienced OB/GYN physician available to offer medical expertise and provide exceptional care.

In addition to handling deliveries, OB hospitalists will assist with any issues and emergencies that may arise. This includes anything from elevated blood pressure to more serious issues that may require immediate surgery. With data showing that hospitals with OB hospitalist programs have fewer perinatal safety events and fewer cesarean deliveries, adding the OB hospitalist program to The Baby Place aligns with AdventHealth’s promise to keep patient safety at the center of all we do.

When a medical emergency hits, you want to be able to get the best care as quickly as possible. That is exactly what happened for a patient who recently experienced some serious abdominal pain that brought her to the Emergency Department at AdventHealth Hendersonville.

Kathy Erwin hadn’t been feeling well for most of the day. But after going to bed, she says the pain got worse. She told her husband she thought she needed to go to the hospital.

Her husband, former Henderson County Sheriff, George Erwin, Jr., told her he was taking her to AdventHealth because it was closer. He admits based on other emergency care needs they had at various health systems in the past year or two, he expected to find a line of people waiting to be seen. Kathy remembers she was surprised as they pulled up to see there wasn’t a long line.

When they arrived around 11 o’clock on a Saturday night, they went inside and checked in. Sheriff Erwin said within 20-minutes the nurse had taken Kathy back to check her vitals, draw blood and have X-rays taken. When Kathy came back out, the nurse told them it would probably be a couple of hours to get the results of the tests back.

“We sat there for a little while. I went over to get a snack and came back, and Kathy was gone.” Sheriff Erwin said they immediately took him back to Kathy where she was in an ER bed and receiving medication to relieve her pain.