CENTER FOR WOMEN AND NEWBORNS

Our Center for Women and Newborns cares for pregnant women throughout their pregnancy, from delivery to discharge, with a focus on family-centered care.

He often provides mental health support services on the hospital floor and as part of a current initiative, which provides all licensed staff with on-thespot training in diagnosis, medication management, and psychotropic medication side effects.

“Empowering staff to improve themselves as nurses and encouraging them to continue their education and pursue psychiatric nurse certification improves our ability to help our patients.”

The 29-bed department — with seven labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum beds and 22 prenatal beds – delivered a record 1,582 babies in 2022, a 12% increase over 2021. In July 2022 alone, the unit delivered 163 babies.

The center also gave new moms a special package comprised of flip-flops, newborn T-shirt, in-house massage, special lunch or dinner for two, free pelvic floor consultation, complimentary bra fitting, three months free membership to the Henry Mayo fitness center and a certificate for Bella Baby photography.

Carli Broyles

A 26-year nursing career comes full circle

Other accomplishments included collecting over 400 ounces of breast milk during the Donor Breast Milk Drive; completing the second Transition Program for Labor and Delivery; receiving the Cal Hospital Compare Honor Role for Maternity Care for Caesarean Section Rates; and successfully completing a Joint Commission Survey, Regional Perinatal Program of California (RPPC) virtual visit and California Newborn Hearing Screen in-person visit.

Both the center and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) received an 80.6% NRC “likelihood to recommend” score, above the organization’s average rate of 72.8%.

When Carli Broyles, RNC-OB, CCE, BSN, joined Henry Mayo in 2011, her nursing career had come full circle.

“I came back to the hospital where I volunteered as a teen,” says Broyles, clinical coordinator for the Center for Women and Newborns. Her time as a high school volunteer in that department proved transformative. “Interacting with nurses and seeing how they worked with moms and babies is when I decided what I wanted to do.”

She is one of two day-shift coordinators overseeing the labor and delivery unit, which includes two operating rooms for Cesarean sections, an obstetric Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and a nursery. Staff triage women experiencing obstetric-related issues, treat highrisk antepartum patients and women in labor and provide mother-baby postpartum care.

“Helping parents through the process of birth is very rewarding. We work hard to help families have healthy deliveries and support their wishes,” says Broyles, who’s worked in the specialty since 2000. It can also be challenging.

“It’s really important that we also support families emotionally, especially those experiencing perinatal loss and maternal mental health issues,” she adds. “We know how to support moms. We try to provide the resources they need and prepare them for what to expect when they go home.”

In 2020, Broyles became an instructor in Henry Mayo’s first transition program for nurses wanting to work in labor and delivery. It’s the same type of training she completed while employed at another hospital.

“It's been a very successful program,” says Broyles, who’s participated in all three programs conducted so far. “The nurses from our first group all continue to work here. We’re training a new generation of labor nurses. They’re the future.”