Facilities
Clinical Facilities
Inpatient Facilities
 All obstetrical inpatient facilities are located at one site: Miami Valley Hospital in the Berry Women’s Health Pavilion. Labor and Delivery is located on the second floor. The labor and delivery unit has 41 total beds broken down as follows: 16 labor, delivery and recovery (LDR) rooms, seven perinatal intensive care unit (PICU) rooms, three dedicated obstetric operating rooms, dedicated pre-operative holding unit with two beds, a dedicated post-anesthesia unit with four beds and nine triage beds. All rooms have centralized electronic fetal monitoring that can be viewed on monitors located throughout the Berry Building and also remotely over the Internet (with appropriate security software).
The PICU rooms are designed for the care of high risk antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum patients. Capacities of the PICU include standard obstetrical procedures, invasive and non-invasive cardiac and hemodynamic monitoring and intravenous infusions of medications for critically ill patients (e.g., patients with diabetic ketoacidosis and severe hypertension). Obstetrical patients requiring mechanical ventilation are co-managed by the MFM fellows along with consulting services in the MVH Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and/or the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU).
There is a General Electric Logic 400 mobile ultrasound unit located on labor and delivery.
There are a total of 40 private postpartum rooms located on the first floor, directly below labor and delivery. There are 16 private antepartum rooms located on the second floor, adjacent to labor and delivery. The antepartum rooms are identical to the postpartum rooms and can be used for either purpose if there is overflow of patients on either ward. All antepartum and postpartum rooms have the capacity for central fetal monitoring. Both the antepartum and postpartum floors have one negative pressure room used for pregnant or post-partum patients with communicable diseases.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a 59-bed unit located in the Berry Building contiguous to the Labor and Delivery operating rooms with a resuscitation room that opens into the NICU. The NICU consists of 33 acute care beds, 10 beds in the transitional nursery and 16 beds in the graduate nursery. The MVH NICU has the only extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) unit in Ohio Perinatal Region II. There is a dedicated pediatric surgical operating room and a dedicated neonatal laboratory in the NICU.
Outpatient Facilities
The Miami Valley Hospital Center for Women’s Health (CWH) is located on the ground floor of the Berry Building. The CWH is approximately 16,000 square feet, with 18 patient exam rooms, three procedure rooms and two consultation rooms. There were 23,558 outpatient visits in 2006. The fellows attend the high-risk obstetrics clinics and the Infectious Diseases/Substance Abuse clinic. There are two General Electric Logic 400 ultrasound units in the clinic.
The Center for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Ultrasound and Genetics (CMFMUG) is located on the ground floor of the Berry Building, adjacent to the CWH, and is approximately 14,000 square feet in size. The unit contains:
- Seven ultrasound examination rooms (all equipped for procedures)
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Nine ultrasound machines (7 Siemens Sequoias and 2 Siemens Antares)
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One reading/control room with two dual 20 inch Siemens KinetDx image review, diagnosis and archiving systems, four hospital computer workstations, and physician workspace.
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One chief sonographer office (2 chiefs)
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One sonographer office
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Two genetic counseling offices
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Five private antepartum testing rooms, with central fetal monitoring
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One diabetic teaching/counseling office
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One dietitian teaching/counseling office
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One chief nurse’s office
In addition, the unit contains the MFM attendings’ offices, fellows’ office, clinical research and Fetal Medicine Foundation/USA offices and a large education/conference room.
Research Facilities
Miami Valley Hospital Campus:
The MFM fellows have the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Laboratory of Endocrine and Perinatal Investigation available for basic science research. The laboratory’s director is Larry Amesse, M.D., Ph.D. Dr.
Amesse is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, director
of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and a member
of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He has specialized training
in microbiology, epidemiology, medical genetics and advanced laboratory
techniques. Dr. Amesse is board certified by the American Board of Bioanalysis
as a High Complexity Laboratory Director (HCLD). The laboratory is located
at MVH, adjacent to the Berry Building in the basement of the Weber Building.
There are 666 square feet of laboratory space. Occasionally medical students,
fellows and laboratory assistants work in this laboratory. The laboratory
is self-sufficient in basic and molecular biology techniques, protein
chemistry, all types of cell culture, ELISA, PCR Direct or RT, Northern
and Western Blots, DNA/RNA techniques and Immunohistochemistry. The laboratory
is equipped with centrifuges, water baths, CO2 Incubator, pH meter, Mettler
Balances, Spectrophotometer, ELISA reader, microscopes, refrigerator
and -85 C° freezers.
Wright State University Campus
 During the 20 months of blocked research time, the fellow is located at the Wright State campus. Located about 10 miles from MVH, the WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine has state-of-the-art laboratories for collaboration in Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division research. The faculty is funded, and there are ample resources for investigation in proteomics, genomics and animal research to name just a few of the active areas. The fellow is provided with personalized instruction in laboratory techniques, expert assistance with procedures, supervision and evaluation by the faculty. Follow these links for more information:
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