Cayuga Birthplace

Cayuga Birthplace is an 18,000 sf, state-of-the-art maternity wing that provides vastly improved women’s health services and supports Cayuga Medical Center’s high standards of quality, innovation, and rapidly expanding patient health volumes.

The wing features six private labor and delivery rooms (previously they were shared rooms), 12 post-partum rooms, a neo-natal intensive care unit, and a cesarean-section operating room that is now on the same floor — further increasing the safety of the babies and mothers when surgery is necessary. The NICU has four bassinets in addition to four single-family NICU rooms that allow for individualized and family-centered infant care.

The wing is developed on an LDR/Post-partum model and is flexible to accommodate changes in the census. HOLT designed the rooms to be multi-functional - serving the needs of a single-family NICU as well as being used as a post-partum room.

Cayuga Birthplace’s goals include the desire to create a space offering the comforts of home with the safety of the hospital, a spa-like environment that is welcoming, soothing, and calm, and also the support for family involvement in the birthing and newborn care experience. Increased comfort during labor and delivery was further achieved through an easy access ground floor location and the inclusion of positive impact items such as spacious, private rooms with whirlpool tubs and family areas with sleeper beds in each room.