Saint John’s maternity services brings together a team of maternal specialists who share the goal of enhancing local services provided to women before, during and after their pregnancy.

Birthing Center

Through its team of skilled physicians, nurse midwives, and other health professionals, Saint John’s Birthing Center provides optimum care to newborns and mothers. The unit is located in the second floor of the South Building features:

• State-of-the-art Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum (LDRP) rooms. Mothers will remain in the same private room for the entire labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum experience, unless they have a C-section
• Each room has a separate dining area, where the new mother can have a special Celebration of Life meal with her partner.
• At Your Service -- lunch and dinner are ordered from a menu and delivered to the room throughout the day.
• Complimentary snack area and snack cart.
• TV and VCR, including EdTV education access.
• Rockers, sleep chairs, and whirlpool baths are available.
• Level II nursery.
• Bilichek is used to detect jaundice in infants without taking a blood sample
• Newborn portrait, internet gallery access for family and friends, and professional photography packages available. 
• Lactation consultant and breast pump rental.

In addition to the personalized care provided by the Saint John’s Birthing Center staff and its physicians, Saint John’s now offers a Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic to provide care management for high-risk delivery and post-partum care. Maternity Massage and sexual dysfunction counseling are available through the office of Dr. Denise Thompson and Woman to Woman Health Care in the Ambulatory Services Center.

Maternal Fetal Medicine

The Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic provides prenatal screening and diagnostic testing, genetic counseling, targeted ultrasound and high-risk and complicated pregnancy management. The Maternal Fetal Medicine diagnostic services are delivered by physicians of St.Vincent Maternal Fetal Medicine Group including Lauren J. Dungy-Poythress, M.D., Dawn Zimmer, M.D., and A.Kinney Hiett, M.D.

When necessary, additional prenatal screenings and diagnostic procedures are offered at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic. The clinic communicates with and supports the patient’s primary care physician in managing the pregnancy.
 

Prenatal Massage

Prenatal general women’s therapeutic massage is available through the office of Dr. Denise Thompson and Woman to Woman Health Care in the Ambulatory Services Center. Massage during pregnancy may be very therapeutic for the mother-to-be as her body goes through the dramatic changes of the childbirth experiences. To schedule an appointment, call 683-3280.

Sexual Dysfunction Counseling

Roxanne Brunsman, MSW, LCSW, a behavioral clinician with the Indiana University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is providing sexual dysfunction counseling for couples and individuals (including men) in Anderson. She is seeing patients at the Ambulatory Services Center, 2020 Meridian St., Suite 220.

Brunsman received her BS and master’s degree from the Indiana University School of Social Work. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and is licensed as a clinical social worker. She also holds memberships with the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality; American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists; the American Academy of Experts of Traumatic Stress; and the Charles F. Menninger Society. For more information, call (765) 646-8532.
 

Obstetricians

The following members of the Saint John's Medical Staff primarily deliver babies at the Birthing Center:
Jeffrey Blake, MD
Douglas Lawson, MD
Stephen Lugo, MD
Denise Thompson, MD