Family Birth Center at Franklin Woods

About the Family Birth Center

Private rooms

The Family Birth Center at Franklin Woods Community Hospital has 20 private rooms:

• 12 are designed for labor / delivery / recovery / postpartum stays (LDRP)
• 8 rooms are used for gynecology patients

Nursery

While mothers are encouraged to keep the baby in their room as much as possible, we provide 24/7 access to a nursery outfitted with 16 bassinets.

Touchdown stations and more

Traditional nurse stations have been replaced with “touchdown stations” that make communication with family members easier.

Also, our reception area looks out onto a healing garden.

Our approach

Our nurses focus on caring for mother and baby as one. And we encourage parents to spend as much time as possible with their baby.

This helps promote breastfeeding and a positive bonding experience. It also helps create a smooth transition when you and your baby leave the hospital.

Parents find that this decreases their anxiety about caring for their babies at home.

Education opportunities

The staff of the Family Birth Center focuses on providing as much one-on-one care and education as possible – both in the classroom and the birthing room.

We want to make parents confident about taking care of their baby after they leave the hospital.

Free birthing center classes

Our conference room provides training space where you can learn important skills like infant CPR and giving baby a bath.

All birthing classes – breastfeeding classes, sibling classes and more – are offered to expecting families at no charge.

Perinatal certification

In 2016, the Family Birth Center became the first hospital in Tennessee to earn Perinatal Care Certification from The Joint Commission.

This certification program recognizes Joint Commission-accredited hospitals that are committed to achieving integrated, coordinated and patient-centered care for mothers and their newborns.

C-sections

Cesarean sections are performed in the two operating room suites in the Family Birth Center. And mothers who have C-sections can recover right in their private rooms.

Fertility services

In-vitro fertilization

Franklin Woods is honored to host Quillen Fertility and Women’s Services. This is the only fertility clinic serving the Tri-Cities and northeast Tennessee region. And it’s one of the least expensive fertility service clinics in the Southeast.

The fertility clinic offers:

• Donor eggs
• Donor embryos
• In-vitro fertilization (IVF)
• Intrauterine insemination
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
• Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)

Organ-sparing treatment

Fertility specialist Dr. Mark Ransom and staff also provide a comprehensive organ-sparing treatment for infertility.

These services include operative laparoscopic and operative hysteroscopy, such as hysteroscopic myomectomy and resection of septums.

Society of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

The Society of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) website posts a 50 percent success rate during 2010 and 2011 at the clinic for women under 35.

All staff doctors are members of SART.

Learn more about fertility services

For more information on the fertility and other services of Quillen Fertility and Women’s Services, go to www.etsuphysicians.com or call (423) 439-7246.

Strong Starts program for families

Ballad Health’s Strong Starts program connects parents and caregivers with essential resources and services for children up to the age of five. We can connect you with childcare services, food assistance, housing insecurity resources and government assistance programs. We also offer classes for new parents, including prenatal, lactation and family classes. For more information or to sign up online, read about our Strong Starts program here.

Safe Sleep Certification

Cribs for Kids has awarded Ballad Health’s Birthing Center at Franklin Woods Community Hospital their Gold Tier Safe Sleep Hospital Certification. This means that we’ve shown outstanding commitment in reducing the risk of: 

• Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID)
• Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed (ASSB)
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• Unsafe sleep injuries 

Our Birthing Centers provide safe sleep education to our staff caring for infants, their family and caregivers. In addition to this, we identify at-risk family/caregivers in need of safe sleep spaces and ensure they have what they need before they’re discharged.

Learn more about Cribs for Kids and their Safe Sleep Hospital Certification.

Contact the birthing center

To learn more about the Family Birth Center at Franklin Woods, call (423) 302-1436.