Potomac Hospital opened our brand new 28,000 square foot Women’s and Children’s Services Department in Spring 2001. Designed with our patients in mind, we combined the comforts of home with privacy, beauty and quality medical care to make having a baby at Potomac Hospital an event you’ll fondly remember.
“We designed the new Women’s and Children’s nurseries with a river theme to tie in with the name Potomac,” says Barbara Huelet, the interior designer for the new department. “We wanted the decor in the nurseries to look like what you’d find on the edge of the Potomac River. We even gave the department a mascot - a seagull.”
Throughout the nurseries you’ll see lily pads, frogs, birds, river grass, ladybugs and butterflies -- everything you’d see during a long walk along the Potomac. The colors are vibrant yet calming.
We’d like to take you on a ‘tour’ of our new facility and let you catch a glimpse of what having a baby is like at Potomac.
When baby’s ready to make his grand entrance, Potomac’s Labor, Delivery, Recovery rooms are a spacious, bright and comfortable place for his arrival.
Post Partum rooms have plenty of room for mom, dad and baby to get to know each other before they go home. Families can even take a stroll in the private courtyard, which is only available to our maternity patients. Toss a penny in the fountain and make a wish.
Words of encouragement adorn this corridor in Post Partum. Each section has beautiful photos depicting local landscapes and themes that are inspirational, humorous and spiritual.
Your little Jack or Jill will begin to grow and thrive during his or her stay in our brand new nursery, lovingly called the “nest.”
We take care of the smallest babies in our newly expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which is now three times larger. Also decorated in the river theme, the NICU is where state-of-the-art technology meets comfort a
nd color. Our tiniest patients receive specialized care that helps babies
grow big enough to leave the “nest.”
Georgis Kefale, M.D., neonatologist, takes a peek at a trio of triplets in the NICU.
It’s not easy being green…small details, like these friendly little frogs,
were included in the NICU to help parents feel at ease.
Private corridors connect Labor and Delivery, all three nurseries and Post Partum with no public access. This allows families to feel secure, especially when their babies go from the nursery to their rooms. Only those with wristbands and authorized visitors are allowed to enter the unit.
Follow the seagull prints to the private discharge lobby
just for moms and new babies.
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