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Women and Children's Services

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Women & Children’s Services Mission Statement

The mission of Canyon Vista Medical Center Women & Children’s Services is to provide exceptional, individualized care, close to home and to promote evidence-based practice, while advocating for women, infants and their families in our community.

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Who We Are

Registered Nurses:

  • Our Nursing Staff is made up of 30 Registered Nurses (RNs).
  • Each RN receives comprehensive, specialty training in Labor and Delivery, Postpartum Care, and Well Baby Nursery. Every RN is certified in Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), S.T.A.B.L.E., AWHONN Fetal Monitoring, and Advanced Cardiac Life Saving (ACLS).
  • Our nurses boast 7 Master’s Degrees, 9 Bachelor’s Degrees, and 9 Obstetric Specialty Certifications.
  • Every RN attends 80 hours of breastfeeding education, in conjunction with the University of Arizona and the Cochise County Breastfeeding Taskforce.

Ancillary Staff

  • Our Surgical Technicians are multi-talented! They attend vaginal births, assist in the care of each patient, and circulate C-Sections in our WCS Operating Room.
  • Our Birth Recorder-Ward Clerk is an expert in Birth Certificates, State of Arizona Hearing Screens, and all other things administrative.

Specialty Services

  • Stephanie Haws, RN, BSN, ICBLC is our amazing Lactation Consultant! She is a member of the Cochise County Breast Feeding Task Force. She provides one-on-one, as well as group, breastfeeding support and education.
  • Kylie Bourland, RN, BSN, CPLC is one of two, Certified Perinatal Grief Counselors in the state of Arizona. She specializes in helping mothers, and families grieving the loss of a baby. Her expertise and compassion has helped many families in our community move through the grief process.

Your Birth Experience

We offer many choices for mothers, babies, and families. Our staff will partner with you to provide the best, safest birth experience possible.

What We Do

  • We are experts in the laboring, and care of pregnant women from 36 weeks of pregnancy on.
  • We offer Vaginal Birth After C/Section (VBAC) services to women who meet national criteria.
  • We provide care for mothers’ expecting twins.
  • We provide care for women, and their families, experiencing the loss of a pregnancy.
  • We provide Anesthesia services, pharmacologic pain relief, and a wide spectrum of natural birth support options, including mobile fetal monitoring, birthing balls, and inclusive family settings.
  • Our c/section rate is consistently below the national average, at 23% annually.
  • We offer compassionate, expert Physician, and Certified Nurse Midwife providers who will work with you throughout your pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum period.

 

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