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Birthing Services: The Family Birth Center

Birthing Services: The Family Birth Center

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley’s Family Birth Center offers the highest level of care to women. Located at HealthAlliance Hospital, the Family Birth Center provides a range of choices for expectant women in a secure, yet family-friendly environment where the well-being of our mothers and babies is our highest priority.

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley’s Family Birth Center offers the highest level of care to women. Located at HealthAlliance Hospital, the Family Birth Center provides a range of choices for expectant women in a secure, yet family-friendly environment where the well-being of our mothers and babies is our highest priority.

We at the Family Birth Center believe that every childbearing experience is unique and that every woman is entitled to a joyful and healthy birth experience. Our beautiful unit is designed to make your delivery a safe, natural and comfortable experience and we work in partnership with you and your family to design a care plan tailored to your particular needs and preferences.

We offer many proven methods of low intervention labor management such as birthing balls, hydrotherapy tub or shower, nitrous oxide, as well as intrathecal pain management and epidural analgesia.
Our staff is committed to providing personalized care with attention to detail, all while listening to your needs. Many clinical staff members are Certified Lactation Counselors. Certification holders demonstrate competence in lactation knowledge, skills and attitudes, and agree to comply with the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice code of ethics.

  • Rooms that feel more like a hotel than a hospital
  • 8 labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum rooms so you can remain in the same room throughout the birthing experience and into the postpartum period
  • 3 private antepartum/postpartum rooms
  • Qualified, compassionate staff
  • Family dining room
  • A multifaceted education program for pregnancy, birth and parenting
  • Hydrotherapy tubs to provide comfort during and between contractions
  • State-of-the-art infant security
  • TeleNeonatology
  • Family-centered nursing care
  • Certified Lactation Consultant and breast-feeding support
  • Parent celebration dinner

HealthAlliance Hospital
105 Mary's Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401
Phone: 845.338.2500

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WMCHealth Advanced OB-GYN Associates
Broadway Medical Pavilion
373 Broadway
Kingston, NY 12401
Phone: 845.303.1132

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Saint Jean, Ashanda M., MD
Ashanda Saint Jean, MD
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley,
Medical Director, Advanced OB-GYN Associates, Kingston,
Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth)
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
Keplinger, Kenneth B., MD
Kenneth Keplinger, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology