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Packard Family Care Center

Our Packard Family Care Center Focuses on Healthy, Safe Newborns

The Packard Family Care Center at Beloit Health System offers many services to welcome your newborn into the world. We are proud to offer services such as labor and delivery, a level-II nursery, mother/baby care in our postpartum area, and pediatrics. The Birth Center is staffed with professional obstetric and Pediatric nurses who combine technology with the professional care that is so important for women and children. Certified instructors offer a broad range of birth education classes, and a certified lactation consultant provides assistance to mothers to help ensure a successful breastfeeding experience.

Now Offering In-Person Birthing Classes

At Beloit Health System we enjoy working in partnership with you in caring for our families during the childbearing years. Our Packard Family Care Center offers Birth Preparation, Breastfeeding, and Sibling Preparation classes (Big Brother/Big Sister Classes) in a state-of-the-art birthing center at times convenient for you.

Classes are free.

Birthing Classes

Birthing preparation classes are being offered in-person in the Packard Family Care Center Education Room on the 2nd floor of the hospital from 6:30-8:30 pm. Birthing classes consist of four Thursday meetings from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm (except in November the third class date will be a combination of the third and fourth classes).

2024 Class Dates

May 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd

July 11th, 18th, 25th, and August 1st

September 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th

November 7th, 14th, and 21st

Please call 608.364.5237 to register.

Breastfeeding Classes

The benefits of breastfeeding your baby help make your baby healthier, provides stronger bones, gives you better healing post-delivery, reduces your baby's risk of some childhood cancers, your breastmilk is a custom-made supply of food for your baby, reduces your baby's risk of developing chronic conditions, easier and always at the right temperature, your baby is sick less often and saves medical costs.

Breastfeeding classes are being offered in-person in the Packard Family Care Center Education Room on the 2nd floor of the hospital from 6:30-8:30 pm.

2024 Class Dates - Held the Last Monday of the Month

April 29th, May 27th, June 24th, July 29th, August 26th, September 30th, October 28th, November 25th and December 30th.

Please call 608.364.5237 to register if not registering online.

Breastfeeding Class Registration Form

Packard Family Birthing Suite

Packard Family Care Center Hallway

Packard Family Birthing Suite

Packard Family Birthing Suite

Packard Family Birthing Suite

Nursery Room

Packard Family Birthing Suite

Waiting Room by Nursery

Packard Family Care Center Sign

Our Birth Center Staff

Beloit Health System’s Packard Family Care staff is skilled and trained to provide expert testing in important areas of infant health. Every registered nurse is trained in neonatal resuscitation and has practiced drills and passed skills tests for rare, but potential, situations such as labor and delivery emergencies.

How We Ensure the Health and Safety of Your Newborn

We offer:

  • Respiratory Care - The Packard Family Care Center offers CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) to assist newborns who need respiration assistance. This allows the Packard Family Care Center to stabilize and to keep more newborns in the nursery and close to their parents.
  • Hearing Screening - Every newborn has a hearing screening. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, hearing loss is one of most frequently occurring birth defects. Approximately three out of 1000 infants are born with moderate, profound, or severe hearing loss. If hearing loss is not detected and treated early, it can impede speech, language, and cognitive development.
  • Heart Health - Every newborn also has a congenital heart disease (CHD) pulse oximetry test. This is a simple, non-invasive test. If abnormal results are found, an Echo may be performed and a referral made to our UW Pediatric Cardiologist. This is an important test to be sure babies go home healthy without unrecognized critical heart defects.
  • Baby Warmers - The Packard Family Care Center has GE Warmers used for all deliveries, including C-section infants in the operating room. The Warmers have all the equipment necessary for a complete infant resuscitation if necessary.
  • Alarm System - For additional safety for newborns, the Packard Family Care Center has a sophisticated infant alarm system with staff who routinely practice potential infant abduction drills.

For more information about services in Beloit Health System’s Packard Family Care Center, please call 608.364.5230.

Packard Family Donor Wall

One exciting feature of the Packard Family Care Center is the Donor Feature Wall. This one-of-a-kind piece of art holds many stories and timeless moments.

Design features include:

  • 100 History Tile - through 1970-2020, showcasing the first 50 years for Beloit Health System
  • 43 meltdown glass panels reflect photographs of donors, doctors and BHS patients
  • 42 LED lights that are cream colored by default. When a baby girl is born, the lights will turn pink for 10 minutes. When a baby boy is born, they will turn blue for 10 minutes.

Donor Wall