IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Birthing center visitation restrictions

To help contain coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Ballad Health hospitals have implemented new labor and delivery visitation restrictions, including:

• Allowing just 1 patient-support person and 1 visitor per room
• Engaging all visitors in screening protocols
• Limiting public entry points

Please read more about these visitation restrictions.

Deciding where to have your baby is important. Choose top-quality, hands-on maternity care from the skilled professionals at our Family Birth Centers in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.

Family Birth Center Services & Amenities

Depend on our one-on-one maternity services, special programs and amenities including:

• Private, homelike, soothing birthing suites with advanced fetal monitoring equipment where you can welcome your new little one in comfort

• Dedicated pediatric hospitalists available 24/7 at Niswonger Children’s Hospital to help care for you and your newborn during delivery and afterward

• Access to advanced facilities if you need a C-section or have other complications

• Highly skilled, caring nurses to help you bond with your baby right after birth and alleviate any anxiety you may have about being a new mother

• Breastfeeding services, including supplies available through Ballad Health pharmacies, as well as breastfeeding classes and certified lactation consultants to support you and your baby in adjusting to breastfeeding

• Prenatal classes to help you understand how to breastfeed, perform infant CPR, give your newborn a bath, teach siblings about baby and more

• Postpartum care for mother and baby to make sure you’re doing well after delivery

• Nurse midwife services available at Indian Path Medical Center and Franklin Woods Community Hospital.

• High-risk maternity care at Johnson City Medical Center, with perinatalogists available 24/7, and High Risk Obstetrical Consultants (HiROC) in Kingsport.

• 24/7 anesthesia coverage

Family Birth Center Locations

Expect quality, family-centered maternity care at one of our ten Family Birth Centers throughout Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia including:

Abingdon, VA

• Family Birth Center at Johnston Memorial Hospital

Big Stone Gap, VA

• The Birthing Inn at Lonesome Pine Hospital, Big Stone Gap, VA

Bristol, TN / VA

• Deborah H. Quillen Birthing Center at Bristol Regional Medical Center, which has been recognized by Cribs for Kids as a Gold-Certified Safe Sleep Champion, the highest infant sleep designation available

Greeneville, TN

• Birthing Center at Takoma Regional Hospital
• Laughlin Memorial Hospital

Johnson City, TN

• Family Birth Center at Franklin Woods Community Hospital, which has earned perinatal care certification from The Joint Commission, is certified as a Gold Safe Sleep Champion by Cribs for Kids
• Shirley Palmer Family Birth Center at Johnson City Medical Center, which includes the Northeast Tennessee Reginal Perinatal Center (one of only five state-designated perinatal centers in Tennessee) – Johnson City Medical Center is certified by The Joint Commission for perinatal care and is a Gold Safe Sleep Champion by Cribs for Kids.

Kingsport, TN

• Barbara Humphreys Birthing Center at Holston Valley Medical Center
• Indian Path Medical Center

Norton, VA

• Norton Community Hospital