Luke provides a wide range of
women’s health services primarily consisting of Obstetrics
and Gynecology Services. These services include Labor and
Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care, Obstetrics, Lactation
Consulting and Health and Wellness. Our staff includes Physicians,
Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurses who provide comprehensive
primary care to women and their babies. Their expertise includes
routine gynecological exams, antepartum and intrapartum
management, postpartum care and immediate newborn care. Luke
OB/GYN personnel have a broad knowledge of normal deliveries as
well as their complications. Our staff is experienced in a wide
range of medical disorders such as premature birth, forceps
delivery, C-sections and fetal death. They are skilled in
assessing women’s health issues and the physiological
changes in the normal life cycle.
Our staff provides care in both the Term Nursery and the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with routine care of the term well
newborn and teaching mothers the care of newborns. The advanced
level of care provided to critically ill neonates includes
continually observing, monitoring and assessing the
patient’s condition. Often it involves life saving measures
such as performing resuscitation within established Neonatal
resuscitation algorithms; interpreting signs and symptoms of
deterioration and initiating corrective action; and performing or
assisting with complex procedures. Our staff also provides
supportive care to patients and family during terminal illnesses.
Luke OB/GYN personnel are licensed and certified by the
American Heart Association in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced
Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program
(NRP).
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