IU Health plans to move obstetrics from IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis to Riley in about two years, hospital officials said, according to the report. IU Health Methodist will not keep an obstetrics unit.
The idea of moving maternity care to Riley came about as hospital officials sought to help the state address its dismal infant mortality rate, according to the report.
Riley Maternity & Newborn Health at IU Health will serve as a statewide program, based out of Riley, that provides care to Indianans, hospital officials said, according to the report. The new program will combine labor and delivery care with maternal fetal medicine, neonatology and other specialty care.
“This is an amazing opportunity to congregate all those people in one building. Just being able to bump into colleagues in the hallway and then to prospectively plan from that perspective is much stronger,” David Ingram, MD, medical director of Riley Maternity & Newborn Health, said, according to the report. “We see this as functioning not in silos but as an integrative program, which historically has never been done here.”
Riley also plans to increase the number of maternal-fetal medicine specialists, who handle high-risk births, the Indianapolis Star reported.
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