The Katena Center for Mother & Child

The Miracle of Life at Denville

Approximately 2,000 times each year, a blessed event occurs at Saint Clare’s Hospital/Denville – the birth of a child. It’s every family’s special moment… which lasts a lifetime.

Recently, the new 48,000 square-foot Katena Center for Mother and Child launched with great public recognition. The region’s finest birthplace features 23 all-private Mother/Baby suites with the ability to expand to 30 if necessary to handle increased volume. In addition, the Katena Center offers a new, enlarged and improved neonatal intermediate-care unit (the Special Care Nursery) to provide life-saving care for babies at risk; two redecorated newborn nurseries; a new multipurpose room; six on-call rooms for physicians; 10 private labor-and-delivery rooms; a perinatology suite containing facilities for prenatal testing; and a new family waiting room.

The new unit was made necessary due to an extraordinary growth in births throughout the area over the last several years. The previous maternity center was designed to accommodate only 1,500 babies a year. In addition the occupancy rate of our neonatal intermediate care unit – the Special Care Nursery – has been growing as well. Designed to care for 50 at-risk babies a year, it now admits, on average, more than 100.

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