Prenatal/Birthing Center

The infant mortality rate for infants born at poverty level is 13.5 per 1000 births compared to 8.3 per 1000 births for infants born to mothers with family incomes above poverty level. As a response to these astounding statistics, Saint John’s Birthing Center provides a number of free classes to expectant parents and their families.

The Birthing Center reaches out to any expectant mothers with limited family income. Courses included prenatal care, cesarean section births, Lamaze childbirth, and classes for grandparents and siblings. Personnel also assist expectant mothers to access the health care system, public assistance programs and other community resources. The prenatal class schedule is HERE.

Saint John's offers free pregnancy testing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the Birthing Center. Free pregnancy testing also is available at these community settings:

St.Vincent Mercy Hospital Outpatient Lab In Elwood
Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.


Pendleton Health Center 350 J. H. Walker Dr., Pendleton
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.


St.Vincent Physician Network practice in Middletown 
602 N. Fifth St., Middletown
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.