A maternity hospital specializes in caring for women during pregnancy and childbirth . It also provides care for newborn infants , and may act as a centre for clinical training in midwifery and obstetrics . Formerly known as lying-in hospitals, most of them, like cottage hospitals , have been absorbed into larger general hospitals , where they operate as the maternity department.
8-736: The Rosie Hospital is a maternity hospital in Cambridge . It is managed by the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . The facility originates from the Central Union Poor House Infirmary which was established on Mill Road in the 19th century. This establishment became the County Municipal Infirmary in 1930, developed into a maternity hospital in the 1940s and then joined
16-584: Is located adjacent to Addenbrooke's Hospital and contains 120 maternity and women's beds. It has its own theatre suite, fetal assessment unit, ultrasound department, and neonatal intensive care unit . It is the regional centre of excellence for maternity care . Maternity hospital Maternity hospitals in the United Kingdom can be traced back to a number of 18th century establishments in London and Dublin . Prior to these foundations, childbirth
24-758: Is that of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital , established in 1745 by Bartholomew Mosse , and which served as a model for three subsequent London foundations: the British Lying-In Hospital , a 1749 establishment in Holborn ; the 1750 City of London Lying-In Hospital , in the City ; and the General Lying-In Hospital on Westminster Bridge Road , established in 1767. A number of other such hospitals were formed in
32-895: The National Health Service as the Mill Road Maternity Hospital in 1948. A new purpose-built facility, established with a significant donation from local philanthropist David Robinson and named after his mother, was opened on Addenbrooke's Hospital 's Hills Road site in October 1983. A major expansion of the Rosie Hospital was opened by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in May 2013 and 5,000 babies had been born there by November 2016. The facility
40-487: The development of specialized centers like Embrio IVF Centre . Based in Pune, India, it offers a range of fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), to support individuals and couples in their journey to parenthood. The center provides comprehensive care with a focus on advanced reproductive technologies, aiming to improve outcomes for patients facing infertility challenges This hospital-related article
48-495: The mid-18th century. All of these were run by male physicians, women being blocked from completing training as doctors until the 1870s. The first maternity hospital founded and run by a woman was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 's New Hospital for Women , which evolved from an existing dispensary in the 1770s, and was renamed in 1918 the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Its work continues in
56-691: The modern Elizabeth Garrett Anderson maternity wing of University College Hospital , part of UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. The Portland Hospital in central London was created in 1983 as a private hospital , i.e. not part of the National Health Service . Also in 1983, the Rosie Hospital opened in Cambridge, next to Addenbrooke's Hospital . The National Maternity Hospital, Dublin is the largest mother-and-baby hospital in Ireland. In recent years, advancements in reproductive health have included
64-585: Was a domestic occasion. The term coined for these establishments, but now archaic , is "a lying-in hospital", referring to the custom of lying-in , prolonged bedrest after childbirth, better known now as postpartum confinement . The first noted lying-in hospital appears to be one founded by Sir Richard Manningham in Jermyn Street , London, in 1739 and which evolved into the Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital . A better documented foundation
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