Former CEO’s Dream Leads to Women’s Center
Published Nov 03, 2008
The Women's Life Center at the Southern Regional Medical Center delivered 5,300 babies in 2007.
Southern Regional Health System’s state-of-the-art Women’s Life Center harkens back to the dream of a former hospital chief.
The center was the vision of Donald B. Logan, the hospital president and CEO, who turned around the hospital before his death in 1997. He imagined a self-contained facility serving the women of the Southern Crescent.
The project broke ground in 1999, ultimately growing to 107,000 square feet, triple the size of its previous location inside the hospital.
To make Southern Regional the leading health-care provider south of I-20, officials wanted to fashion the center as state of the art when it opened in May 2001.
To serve this need, the center became home to private labor and delivery rooms, postpartum family-care rooms and bassinets. More than 5,300 babies were born at the hospital in 2007.
MaryKay Gardenier, senior vice president of operations, points to the 23-bed neonatal intensive care unit that takes care of vulnerable, high-risk, low-birth weight and premature infants.
This work for newborns garnered the hospital’s NICU team a designation as the best in the Southeast by Advance for Nurses magazine.
And that care carries on long past birth. The hospital has developed a Women’s Diagnostic Services area, where patients can receive combined mammography, ultrasound, bone-density tests and stereotactic breast biopsy.
Story by Roy Moore
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