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The nonprofit global health and disaster relief organization located in Stamford recently awarded more than $130,000 in funding to the Norman Regional Health Foundation. That will allow the Norman Regional Health System to purchase new equipment for five labor and delivery rooms and one operating room at the HealthPlex. The hospital also acquired an additional monitor to measure a newborn’s vital signs after a cesarean section.
The number of births at the HealthPlex has increased from 220 per month to as many as 280 per month since the destruction of Moore Medical Center’s Family Birth Center five miles away.
To accommodate the overflow of maternity patients from Moore, which is also part of the Norman Regional Health System, the HealthPlex is using five additional hospital rooms for labor and delivery patients but needed the proper nursery equipment on hand to fully outfit each one. All labor and delivery services for the area will be provided at the HealthPlex. Nearly half of HealthPlex patients are low-income and receive Medicaid benefits.
AmeriCares is a nonprofit global health and disaster relief organization that delivers medicines, medical supplies and aid to people in need around the world and across the United States. Since it was established in 1982, AmeriCares has distributed more than $11 billion in humanitarian aid to 164 countries. For more information, visit americares.org.
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