Effective August 1, Willamette Valley Midwives will be renamed Willamette Health Partners Midwives to better reflect its association with Willamette Health Partners. The name change is part of several changes taking place to provide patients with comprehensive women’s health care in one convenient location. In addition to the name change, the midwifery practice will relocate to the Salem Hospital campus in a new and expanded clinic shared with Willamette Health Partners Obstetrics & Gynecology.

“This new combined clinic space will allow for continued growth of our women’s services program, a wider range of women’s services all under one roof and an improved patient experience,” said Bill Edwards, director, physician practice operations for Willamette Health Partners and Salem Health.

The new space will be located in Suite 5030 of Building C on the Salem Hospital campus, 875 Oak St. SE in Salem. In addition, Willamette Health Partners Maternal-Fetal Medicine will also be relocating from its current location in Building C on the Salem Hospital campus to a new space in Suite 5050 of Building C.

Willamette Health Partners continues to offer a safer and smarter choice for women’s health services in the mid-Willamette Valley.

During pregnancy, Salem Hospital offers Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists who deal specifically with high-risk pregnancies.

For delivery, Salem Hospital employs OB Hospitalists, who are available 24 hours a day to back up OB physicians. They also back up the Willamette Health Partners Midwives, should a higher level of care be needed. Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients — and their activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to Hospital Medicine.

With post-delivery care for high-risk cases, Salem Hospital has a Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the highest and most specialized level of NICUs. The American Academy of Pediatrics classifies a Level III NICU as one that has personnel and equipment to provide continuous life support and comprehensive care for extremely high-risk newborn infants and those with complex and critical illness.

Salem Hospital is the only hospital in the mid-Willamette Valley that offers these services.

To help facilitate the move to its new locations, Willamette Health Partners Obstetrics & Gynecology, Willamette Health Partners Midwives and Willamette Health Partners Maternal-Fetal Medicine will be closed from July 26 to July 31 and re-open in the new locations on Wednesday, August 1.

Willamette Health Partners is a part of Salem Health, along with Salem Hospital, West Valley Hospital and other affiliated health care organizations offering exceptional care to people in and around Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley. Visit us at salemhealth.org and facebook.com/salemhospital; follow us on Twitter: @salemhealth; and view us at youtube.com/user/salemhealth.