Improving Comfort and Expanding Access to Women's Services
Lakewood Ranch Medical Center (LWRMC) has completed a $3 million renovation of the Women’s Center. The project provides the Women’s Center with a more spa-like atmosphere and expand access to high-quality maternity care in the Lakewood Ranch community.
Keeping with current design trends for labor and delivery spaces, LWRMC’s vision for the Women’s Center focuses on the comfort of patients, both mother and newborn, and families. The Women’s Center will provide a peaceful environment for women at every stage of labor, from admission to delivery and postpartum.
Modern Lobby
A modernized lobby offers a welcoming atmosphere to expectant mothers as they arrive. To emphasize hospitality, the new reception and waiting areas feature a backlit reception desk. Corridors have artwork, warmer finishes and new lighting to avoid the often-sterile atmosphere of hospitals. Further departing from the hospital feel, entryways to each room are enhanced with decorative soffits, new lighting and custom signage.
Labor and Delivery and Patient Rooms
Every labor and delivery room received new finishes and amenities, including personalized lighting control for expectant mothers giving a unique birthing experience, added space for family members and new equipment to assist with delivery. To aid with recovery after the baby’s birth, patient rooms have the feel of a hotel room, with upgraded headwall finishes and furniture, large televisions and the option to hide or disguise clinical aspects of the room.
More Capacity
This renovation project expands the Women Center’s capacity to 14 labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum rooms, ensuring mothers and babies stay together in the same room throughout their stay. There were also significant improvements to the staff areas of the Women’s Center, including a redesign of the nurse station for improved functionality and efficiency.
