The Birthing Unit at the SAN (Sydney Adventist Hospital) is an excellent place to have your baby.
No matter where you live the SAN is not too far away. You will have your baby in what is arguably the best quality birthing unit with the best and most experienced birth unit midwifery staff in Sydney.
The SAN call their labour ward the Birthing Unit ant the Birth Unit.
The Birthing Unit is large with delivery suites facing out, so all have good views. It is on the 11th floor of Clark Tower. From some suites you can even see the Opera House.
San Maternity has nine dedicated birthing suites, all with electronic beds to provide support in different birthing positions. All suites have ensuites with showers and baths, and two have specifically designed pools for water births. To help make you more comfortable during labour, you have access to birth chairs, birth balls, electric aromatherapy burners, microwaves and ice dispensers. Flat screen TVs, free Wi-Fi and day beds are also provided for you and your husband/partner.
The delivery suites are large, pleasant, neat and clean, well equipped and well maintained.
Outside the delivery suites are wide corridors. One corridor goes from the Birthing Unit entrance to the large nurses station. The other corridor goes from the other side of the nurses station past the delivery suites on that side to the SCBU (special care baby unit). There is kitchen off that corridor.
There is also a CTG suite, where there can be CTG monitoring for two patients at the same time
In each delivery suite is a computer terminal. So, it is very easy to login and check and make entries to patient notes. There are multiple computer terminals at the nurses station that can be used to make entries to patient notes. CTG recordings can be seen in each delivery suite and on a large screen at the nurses station.
I can login remotely and check patient notes and CTG recordings and make notes entries. I can do this from my office or from home.
The excellent positive atmosphere between staff is obvious. There is good camaraderie team atmosphere. Many midwives on the Birthing Unit have been on staff at the SAN many years. That means these midwives are very experienced. Also, that continuity of employment indicates they are happy working at the SAN.
Patients are looked after by experienced midwives. As English is the mother tongue of most midwives there are no issues with accents and understanding.
Midwives are very supportive of me. They will update me by text or phone if they have any queries or concerns about my patients.
As I have been on staff since February 1986, I know most of the midwives well. It is great atmosphere for me to work. As well I know I can trust the midwives looking after my patients.
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