Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Associates raises $2,000 for New Generations Family Birthing Center through Boo-ti-ful Babies Benefit

11/12/2012

Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Associates raises $2,000 for New Generations Family Birthing Center through Boo-ti-ful Babies Benefit

Sylva, NC—Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Associates raised $2,000 for the New Generations Family Birthing Center through their Boo-ti-ful Babies Benefit held  Oct. 20. 

The New Generations Birthing Center is a $3 million renovation project of the mother and baby section on the hospital’s third floor. Plans for the Birthing Center include increasing the number of available labor and delivery rooms, implementing new technology and offering a specific operating room for Caesarean sections. 

Nearly 700 babies are born each year at MedWest-Harris, receiving excellent care from the obstetricians, midwives, nursing staff and pediatricians who care for the families on the Mother and Baby Unit. 
  
This event, which is one of many, helped raise proceeds to benefit the MedWest-Harris & Swain Foundation in its plans for construction of the birthing center set to begin in the second half of 2013. 

Other events that benefited the New Generations Birthing Center included the “That ‘70s Gala” Aug. 25 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel Center, which raised more than  $60,000 for the third-floor renovations. 

In efforts to continue raising money, the MedWest-Harris & Swain Foundation is now selling Curly the Bear stuffed animals which are a 2-foot-tall stuffed teddy bears priced at $20 each.   

For more information on the New Generations Family Birthing Center and Foundation events, please visit www.medwesthealth.org. For information about Curly the Bear, contact Linda Clause at (828) 631-8924.