Welcome to the Rockyview General Hospital Virtual Maternity Tour

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Welcome to the Rockyview General
HospitalVirtual Maternity Tour
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Time for Baby!

• The Rockyview General Hospital is located at 7007
  14th Street S.W.
• You may pull up to the main entrance to drop off
  a passenger, before proceeding to Lot 1, Visitor
  Parking.
• The main entrance to the hospital is opposite the
  doors on Level 4 of the parkade.
• More parking information and maps can be found at
  www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/parking
• Check in your From Here Through Maternity Book
  for a list of items to bring to hospital, or
  www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/health_info/mat_new/Lab
  ourandDelivery.htm

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Emergency Entrance

• The Emergency Entrance is to the West of the Main
  Entrance. Use this entrance after 9 p.m.
• You do not need to check in at Emergency. Just
  follow the signs to the elevators.

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For your comfort and safety

• Breathe easy! Alberta Health Services facilities
  are smoke-free. This includes the buildings and
  parking lots.
• Cell phone use is not permitted in the maternity
  area.
• Cell phones can be used in designated public
  areas, in silent or vibrate mode.

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Questions?

• After you come in the main entrance, go past the
  coffee bar and to the left. You will come to the
  Information Desk.
• Elevators are in the corridor to the left of the
  Information Desk.

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6th Floor Womens Specialty Unit

• Take the elevator to the 6th Floor. Turn right
  and follow the signs to Womens Specialty Unit.

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Welcome to the Womens Specialty Unit!

• Check in at the desk. The clerk will get your
  information and take you to an assessment room.
  Your doctor will already have sent your records
  to the hospital.

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Assessing Your Labour

• You will be taken into an assessment (Triage)
  room, where the nurse will assess you.
• Your contractions will be monitored, and the
  nurse will also take your blood pressure and ask
  you questions about your pregnancy and your
  contractions.
• After the assessment is completed, your doctor
  will be notified. If you are in active labour,
  you will be admitted to the unit. If you are in
  very early labour and are having no problems, you
  may be sent home, with instructions about when to
  return.

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Admitting

• If you are going to be admitted for labour, your
  partner will be asked to go to Admitting to
  complete the paperwork. You will need moms
  Alberta Health Care card and any other insurance
  cards (for example, Blue Cross).

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Your Labour and Delivery Room

• Your private labour / birthing room has a bed and
  rocking chair for your use. While walking is a
  great way to enhance labour, your nurse will show
  you how to use the bed in different ways so that
  you are more comfortable.
• Each labour room has its own bathroom with
  shower.
• There is a fetal monitor beside the bed, which
  will be used intermittently throughout your
  labour.
• There is a phone in the labour room so you can
  let people know when the baby has arrived!
• You will stay in this room for the labour, birth
  and the first few hours after the baby is born.

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Support During Labour

• You are welcome to have two support people with
  you in labour. They will each be given a hospital
  wrist band. There isnt space for other family
  members and friends to wait in the hospital.
• The hospital has several coffee shops and
  cafeterias where your support people can get
  something to eat.

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Cesarean Birth

• Should you need a Cesarean Birth, there are two
  operating rooms on the Labour and Delivery Unit.

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After a Cesarean Birth

• After a Cesarean Birth, you will be moved to a
  Recovery Room. If the baby is well, you and your
  baby will stay in the Recovery Room until you are
  ready to go to the Postpartum Unit.

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The Mother-Baby Unit

• One to two hours after your baby is born, you
  will move to Unit 64, the postpartum unit.
• To ensure the safety and privacy of new moms and
  babies, visitors must use the intercom on the
  wall to the right of the doors to enter the unit.

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Your Postpartum Room

• Most rooms on this unit are semi-private. There
  is a bathroom in each room.
• The few private rooms are often needed for
  mothers who are ill or who have special
  circumstances.
• Your two support people may visit at any time,
  however, there is no overnight stay permitted.
  The babys siblings and grandparents may visit
  briefly between 11 am and 9 pm.
• You will be in hospital between two and three
  days, depending on the health of you and your
  baby.

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Nurseries

• The Special Care Nursery is on the Sixth Floor,
  for babies who need extra help.

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Going Home

• According to Alberta law, infants must travel in
  an approved rear-facing car seat. Purchase this
  seat before your baby is born, and read both the
  manufacturers instructions and your vehicle
  owners manual for correct installation.
• For information on infant car seats, go to
  http//www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/carseats

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For more information on your hospital stay,
please go back to www.birthandbabies.com and
click on Hospital Orientation

• Best Wishes to you, your baby,
• and your new family!