Care of the childbearing family requires collaborative involvement of all staff members. Patients are valued as individuals and therefore, are assisted in attaining a pleasant, uneventful antepartum and postpartum period within the constraints of the physical setting.
Care is provided during the continuum of the antepartal, postpartal, and newborn periods.
Educational opportunities will be provided. Active family participation and appropriate community resources to acquire health maintenance activities are utilized to promote development for new patients, grandparents, and siblings.