Welcome to the Betty H. Cameron Women's and Children's Hospital
at New Hanover Regional Medical Center

Geometrically bold and partly glass-clad, the Betty H. Cameron Women's and Children's Hospital at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, which opened in September, is the region's  premier hospital for the special needs of women and children in southeastern North Carolina and beyond.

Located on NHRMC's 17th Street campus, the 195,000-square-foot Betty H. Cameron Women's and Children's Hospital is home to expert physicians and staff in addition to some of the state's most technically sophisticated medical equipment.

From fertility consultations to the addition of the region's only pediatric intensive care unit, the 150-bed hospital offers a complete continuum of care for women and children in a family-centered environment.

Hospital Services

Labor and Delivery Unit

The Labor and Delivery Unit has 14 large, all private Labor/Delivery/Recovery rooms and three C-section operating rooms. With more than 4,000 deliveries last year alone, the unit boasts generous, in-room family space with comfortable chairs and a sleeper sofa, thus ensuring the family stays together throughout the birth. Hydrotherapy, including portable labor tubs and multi-head spa showers, are available. Other amenities include a family kitchen and living room as well as a washer/dryer.

Mother/Baby Unit

After delivery, families and their newborns move to the Mother/Baby Unit. In addition to 35 all private rooms, amenities include a family kitchen, lounge and laundry. Internet access is available, and all rooms include a flat panel TV and DVD player. For breast feeding mothers, lactation consultants are available.

Antepartum Unit

Women with high-risk pregnancies often have to be hospitalized leading up to delivery, some for as long two months. This unit is more conducive for patients with long stays, including a Suite Retreat, a common area that allows patients to spend time out of their rooms, offer each other company and support and make their stay less stressful. A patio allows patients to take in fresh air and sunshine.

Women's Unit

Women admitted to the hospital needing gynecological treatment, including gynecological oncology, are also served at the new facility. Women treated in this unit will benefit from all private rooms and a highly specialized medical staff.

NICU

One of the biggest changes is a new approach to the neonatal intensive care unit, also known as the NICU. With 45 beds, the NICU gives premature or critically ill newborns access to the medical center's highly skilled neonatal team, including five neonatologists, five neonatal nurse practitioners and a range of NICU registered nurses and respiratory therapists. Each baby is cared for in an all private room (the only NICU in the state with this design) that can accommodate the mother and the entire family, an environment with proven medical benefits.

New technologically advanced and highly sensitive monitors allow for more accurately measuring babies' vital functions. When alarms to these monitors sound, they are transmitted to a nurse with a handheld device outside the room, thereby leaving the baby and family undisturbed.

PICU

The region's only pediatric intensive care unit opened Dec. 1, allowing critically ill children and young adults to stay close to home when hospitalized. This is the first pediatric intensive care unit in the region. The PICU is staffed by physicians with advanced pediatric training, including pediatric hospitalists and intensivists. Staff also includes highly trained pediatric nurse practitioners and registered nurses. Consistent with the new hospital's emphasis on family-centered care, the PICU has a family kitchen and living room as well as washer/dryer.

We ask your patience as this page is currently being expanded. Please look for a more complete page with links outlining in full the broad range of women's and children's services in weeks to come.