MercyOne Genesis Silvis Birth Center

About MercyOne Genesis Silvis Birth Center

Find a birth experience tailored to your wishes and needs at MercyOne Genesis. Here, you and your family will welcome your new arrival in a warm, comforting and safe environment.

Our birth center is a recipient of the top-quality award from the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative. We’re committed to improving the quality of care for moms and babies.

You can count on our expert care team to be here for you. Your care team could include:

• Obstetrician
• Certified Lactation Counselors
• Mother-baby nurse
• Neonatal Nurse Practitioners
• Pediatric provider
• Pharmacy team member

Our expert care team is equipped to assist with conditions that may arise with pregnancy. These can include breastfeeding challenges such as trouble latching, monitoring blood sugar for gestational diabetes during labor and delivery, high-risk pregnancy, miscarriage, postpartum depression, preterm labor, preeclampsia and stillbirth.

We have a Level II Special Care Nursery that can care for premature and moderately sick babies. Find comfort knowing your baby has fast access–in the unlikely event he or she needs it–to experienced providers and nurses who use the latest in advanced technology.

If your baby needs a higher level of neonatal intensive care, we work in close collaboration with OSF Healthcare Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, ranked in the nation’s Top 50 for neonatology care.

Services

• Level II Special Care Nursery
• Certified Lactation Counselors
• Cesarean section (c-section)
• Delivery of multiples (twins)
• Free access to our personalized MercyOne maternity app
• “Golden Hour” - private, quiet time for the parent(s) and newborn to bond following delivery
• Large, private rooms for expectant moms having c-section deliveries, preterm labor, gynecological care or other complications
• Latest fetal-monitoring technology
• LDRP rooms – Labor, deliver, recover and get postpartum care in the same private room
• Low- and high-risk deliveries
• Mother-baby nurses who are cross-trained to provide care for both you and your newborn
• Neonatal resuscitation
• Operating room suites with recovery rooms on the same unit
• Pregnancy and childbirth education
• Spinning Babies – Nurses trained in special techniques to help with successful vaginal delivery
• Triage rooms
• Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)
• Variable intervention levels – as much or as little medical involvement as you’d like, including pain relief and the personnel present
• Whirlpool tubs and showers in birthing suite for hydrotherapy during labor

Procedures and Practices:  

• Delayed clamping of the umbilical cord
• Emergency c-section
• Epidural and nitrous oxide available for pain control during labor
• First bath for baby
• Health examination for baby
• Labor induction
• Lactation experts available for education with breastfeeding and/or using a breast pump
• Monitoring of blood sugar during labor and delivery for gestational diabetes
• Screening for depression
• Skin-to-skin bonding on all healthy term deliveries

Amenities

• Birthing balls to use during labor
• Flexible visiting hours
• Newborn nursery
• Room service
• Security system for a safe, comfortable environment
• Social worker to provide access to community resource programs and services, if necessary
• Television
• Whirlpool tub in birthing suite