{"id":128393,"date":"2026-01-22T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128393\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:50:09","slug":"port-st-lucie-hospital-celebrates-opening-of-new-labor-neonatal-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128393\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie hospital celebrates opening of new labor, neonatal units"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital is celebrating the opening of a new floor dedicated to women’s services. <\/p>\n

The hospital is holding a ribbon-cutting tonight for its expanded Women’s Care floor, which includes a Level II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), new labor and delivery suites, two obstetric operating rooms and an obstetric emergency room. <\/p>\n

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Port St Lucie<\/p>\n

Hospital responds to sharp rise in labor and delivery demand<\/p>\n

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The newly expanded unit is a response to explosive growth on the Treasure Coast, and fills a gap left by the closure of the maternity unit<\/a> at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital. <\/p>\n

In September, WPTV spoke to health care professionals<\/a> who highlighted the area’s heightened need for more for maternity care. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost on a daily basis, I get requests. Not just for people who are newly pregnant, but for people who are in their second trimester or third trimester,\u201d said OB-GYN Dr. Laura McCurdy with Women\u2019s Health Specialists. \u201cWe are seeing a big influx.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital is celebrating the opening of a new floor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30058,63481,24764,63482,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-128393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-delivery","tag-hca-florida-st-lucie-hospital","tag-labor","tag-neonatal-intensive-care-unit","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}