MercyOne Genesis Davenport Birth Center
Phone & Address
1227 East Rusholme Street
Fifth Floor
Davenport, IA 52803
Hours
About MercyOne Genesis Davenport Birth Center
The Davenport Birth Center offers a Level II Regional Neonatology Center. This means your baby has access to experienced doctors and nurses who use the latest in advanced technology. Benefit from highly specialized, on-site care that allows your infant to get superior treatment close to home.
You can count on us to care for you. Our birth center was the first in the Quad Cities to have all labor nurses trained to give specialized advanced cardiac life support to women in labor. Your care team could include:
- Obstetrician
- Certified Nurse Midwife
- Lactation Consultant
- Mother-baby nurse
- Pediatrician
- Perinatal safety nurse
Our expert care team is equipped to assist with conditions that may arise with pregnancy. These can include breastfeeding challenges, gestational diabetes, high-risk pregnancy, miscarriage, postpartum depression, preterm labor, pre-eclampsia and stillbirth.
Services
- Access to the free MercyOne maternity app
- Birthing suites with Wi-Fi, whirlpool tub and a sleeping couch for support person
- Cesarean section (c-section)
- Dedicated perinatal safety nurse
- Delivery of multiples (twins)
- Established “Golden Hour” - quiet time for mom, baby and support person to bond following a healthy delivery
- Free education sessions including childbirth, breastfeeding and training for new parents
- Hydrotherapy in our whirlpool tubs for pain relief during labor
- Lactation experts to provide you with breastfeeding instruction and support
- LDR rooms – Labor, deliver and recover in a single private room, then receive postpartum care in a separate room
- Level II NICU
- Low- and high-risk deliveries
- Neonatology
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Skin-to-skin bonding
- Triage rooms to determine if labor is progressing
- Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)
- Variable intervention levels for as much or as little medical involvement as you’d like
- Wireless electronic fetal monitoring
Procedures and Practices
- Baby’s first bath
- Baby’s first health examination
- Delay of cord clamping
- Emergency cesarean section
- Epidural and nitrous oxide available for pain control during labor
- External cephalic version to turn baby from breech to head down
- Induction of labor
- Lactation consultation and education for breastfeeding and/or using a breast pump
- Monitoring of blood sugar during labor and delivery for those with gestational diabetes
- Screening for depression
- Skin-to-skin bonding for healthy term deliveries
Amenities:
- Bella Baby Photography to capture your newborn’s first photo in the comfort of your hospital room
- Birthing balls to utilize during labor
- Newborn nursery
- Nurses certified in Spinning Babies techniques to facilitate labor progression
- On-campus coffee shop with Starbucks coffee
- Private, newly renovated rooms with rocking chairs and daybeds
- Sink in recovery room specially designed to bathe babies
Services
- Birth Center
- Maternity Care
