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LABOR & DELIVERY - ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The state-of-the art facilities of the Hutzel Women’s Hospital Labor and Delivery Unit include:
- Approximately 5,500 deliveries annually
- High-risk population
- 25 birthing rooms and 4 obstetrical operating rooms
- Maternal Special Care Unit (MSCU)
- -Five-bed unit
- -The only maternal ICU in Michigan
- Fetal therapy procedure rooms for clinical training in cordocentesis, intrauterine fetal transfusions, fetal endoscopy and radiofrequency ablation
- Fellow participation in the care of fetuses with lethal, non-lethal malformations and genetic syndromes
- Opportunities for clinical research and education:
- -Design and participate in clinical research
- -Collaboration with Neonatology, Cardiology, and Critical Care Pediatrics
- -Daily Research Rounds: presentation and discussion of current cases, patient management, and review of pertinent scientific literature