16,000 deliveries a year? Really?

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Specializes in LDRP.

So i was watching an older episode of Babies: special delivery the other day. IT was focusing on some hospital in Texas. I don't know what city. It said they did 16,000 deliveries a year!

16,000 / 52 = 308 deliveries a week (approx)

308 / 7 = 44 deliveries a day

That's astounding. I can't imagine the staffing necessary for that, or how many beds that unit must have, or how many doctors! wow! sounds absolutely huge!

I thought we were busy with 300 deliveries a month!

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Specializes in L&D/MB/LDRP.

Dallas - It's Parkland & it's CRAZY!!!! There is one in Atlanta that does aboue 15K and Northwestern in Chicago does 10K.

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Specializes in LDRP.

It was Parkland! Now I remember!!

wow. I can't imagine.

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I thought we were bad with an average of 700+ a month. The past couple years we have had over 8000 deliveries in a year

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And I thought Inova Fairfax was busy with close to 12,000 a year! I hope they are well staffed at Parkland.

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and it's crazy....all the time! I work in the NICU there and right now we have more than 90 babies in our unit....we usually are in the 50-60 range.

If you divide that 16,000 out, that's 43.8 babies per day. we also have a very large percentage of multiples born there....just this week, our unit (so this doesn't count the ones that went to newborn) has admitted a set of trips and two sets of twins....that's since Monday morning!

Jamie

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Wow, that must be nuts. I wonder how many nurses they have on each shift?

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

I'm trying to imagine being the charge nurse for such a setting!! The ideal candidate would be a former air traffic controller.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Or, military drill sergeant. No thanks.

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Specializes in LD, RTS.

I just recently accepted a job at Norhtside in Atl. They had 18,000 deliveries last year. It is very organized. They are divided into pods, and you wouldn't know that they are that busy. :monkeydance:

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Specializes in Education, Administration, Magnet.

In school they showed us a video of Parkland, where all these women were lined up on the OB floor, on stretchers, waiting to have a baby. I guess they had an overflow on that day. I wonder if they have a large birthing rooms, just for busy days like that.

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Specializes in L&D/MB/LDRP.

I know a nurse that traveled to Northside in ATL. She loved it. She did say it was very organized and you'd never know they did that many deliveries. Sounds like some of these hi vol L&Ds need to take a look at their model.

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