Expert, Compassionate Care
The Claire M. Lintilhac Birthing Center provides expert care in a comfortable environment. We support your choices and preferences to help make childbirth a joyful, memorable experience. Our state-of-the-art birthing center offers comfortable, modern amenities and a team of experts who will support you in having the labor and delivery and postpartum experience you hope for.
Our birthing center includes an inpatient postpartum unit, the Rosemarie Wright Mother Baby Unit. This is a comfortable place to welcome your newborn and enables you to be cared for by our expert physicians and staff while resting and preparing for your journey home.
Our team recognizes the importance of individual choices during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. We welcome patients of all races, ethnicities, abilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.
Why Choose Us?
As a leading pregnancy and childbirth program in the region, we offer:
- Dedicated team: Our pregnancy and childbirth teams include board-certified obstetricians, certified nurse-midwives, advanced practice providers, highly trained nurses and lactation consultants. Every team member is focused on helping you have a healthy pregnancy and baby.
- Midwifery services: Midwives offer a holistic approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery and support natural interventions for patients who desire them.
- Advanced care when needed: If health issues occur during pregnancy, you have access to highly trained specialists, including maternal-fetal medicine physicians, and the latest technology in our maternal care center and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
- Personalized birth experience: You’ll find private birthing rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology and one-on-one nursing care during labor and delivery. Doula support is also available.
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Awards & Certifications
Newsweek: America's Best Maternity Hospitals
Newsweek has included University of Vermont Health's anchor academic medical center and Level 1 Trauma Center that serves the region on its ranking of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals after assessing the quality of perinatal care, operative obstetrics, patient education and counseling, accommodation and service, and nurse and midwife staffing.