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MEDIA RELEASE With overcrowding easing at North Hawaii Community Hospital’s Family Birthing Unit, the hospital’s Waimea Women’s Center is now accepting island-wide maternal care patients on a space available basis. The Waimea Women’s Center has the capacity to accept 40 maternal care patients each month. NHCH’s maternal care patient projections have eased, and this adjustment […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Women seeking a different approach to prenatal care will soon have a new option at NHCH’s Waimea Women’s Center, which will be administering a $15,000 Women’s Community Health grant from Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies on behalf of the North Hawaii Perinatal Local Area Consortium. NHCH’s Waimea Women’s Center will become the first Hawaii […]

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MEDIA RELEASE NHCH was designed to support a maximum of 550 births each year. Last year, 663 babies were delivered and that number is on pace to exceed 700 births in 2012. At present, 51 percent of the births at NHCH are from women who live outside the hospital’s service area. To ease overcrowding and […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea and North Hawaii residents are invited to a facilitated discussion about the future of North Hawaii Community Hospital’s Waimea Women’s Center and its maternal care program at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 at Parker School Theatre. Coordinated by Waimea Community Association, the meeting will begin with Friends of the Community Hospital Ohana, […]

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