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COVID-19: Family Birth Place visitor guidelines
Please click here to learn more about visitor guidelines in the Family Birth Place.
Note: St. Francis does not routinely separate families from their newborns due to positive or pending COVID-19 test results. While you are with us at the St. Francis Family Birth Place, we continue to encourage you to "room-in" with your baby. Rooming-in keeps your baby where he or she feels safest, which is with you. When babies room-in, benefits include better feeding, less crying and less weight loss.
St. Francis Family Birth Place
The St. Francis Family Birth Place is home to experienced labor and delivery providers from both Allina Health and Park Nicollet. Resources from both leading health systems support safe, high-quality and compassionate care. We're located close to home in the suburbs, but we offer many of the services you'd expect at a hospital in the city, including a water birth suite, integrative therapies such as aromatherapy and access to a lactation consultant.
Our patients tell us that we go above and beyond expectations, and that they would recommend us. In fact, St. Francis' Family Birth Place patients consistently rate their experience higher than patients at other Twin Cities metropolitan area birth centers.
At St. Francis, you can choose a Park Nicollet or Allina physician, or a certified nurse midwife, for your pregnancy care and delivery.
Amenities
We are happy to provide a variety of amenities to help you and your family enjoy your stay:
- Free parking and Wi-Fi.
- Level II Special Care Nursery: Learn about Saints Foundation's remodel project here!
- Private, spacious suites that are comfortable and up-to-date with separate rooms for labor/delivery and postpartum.
- Advanced technologies for fetal monitoring and infant security.
- Nitrous for pain management.
- 24/7 onsite OB provider.
- Integrative therapies such as guided imagery and aromatherapy.
- Immediate skin-to-skin bonding with your baby after a C-section or vaginal birth, medically permitting.
- Birth aids such as birthing bars, labor balls or peanut balls.
- 24/7 availability of epidurals.
- Large, private suites with pull-out beds for partners.
- Dimming lights, electric candles.
- Accommodation to those wanting vaginal birth after previously having a C-section (VBAC).
- Award-winning lactation consultant.
- Large flat-screen TVs in every room.
- Extra outlets for cellphones and other devices.
- Doula-friendly facilities.
- Low rate for unplanned C-sections.
- Milk Depot onsite at St. Francis.
Family Birth Place virtual tour
*PLEASE NOTE: To minimize the possible risk due to COVID-19, Family Birth Place tours are suspended until further notice. Please utilize our online Family Birth Place photo or video tours below. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Welcome to St. Francis Women's Health Family Birth Place.
Upon arrival to the St. Francis Family Birth Place, you will be welcomed by our compassionate, caring staff.
We provide a beautiful environment with holistic, healing alternative therapies such as guided imagery and aromatherapy to complement your medical care.
St. Francis Family Birth Place features private, spacious suites that are comfortable and up-to-date with separate rooms for labor/delivery and postpartum. Every room has ample space for you and your support person, with plenty of seating and a pull out couch, if they plan to stay overnight.
Our award-winning lactation consultant can help you and your baby be comfortable and confident with the breastfeeding experience in your recovery room, or in our lactation room.
In our Level 2 special care nursery, your baby will be cared for by neonatal nurse practitioners (NNP), pediatricians or neonatologists, and nurses with specialized training in caring for ill or premature infants. Our NNPs are on-site 24 hours a day. These advanced practitioners are affiliated with Children's Minnesota and work in tandem with the Children's Neonatology group.
Our Level 2 special care nursery can care for infants born 4 to 6 weeks before their due date, babies who need treatment for infections, or babies require extra care and monitoring as they adjust to life outside their mother’s womb.
All rooms are large, private suites with pull-out beds for partners and have access to birth aids such as birthing bars, labor balls or peanut balls.
Our state-of-the-art c-section suite is right down the hall from all of our labor/delivery and recovery rooms. You won't need to leave the Family Birth Place for your cesarean delivery.