Overlook Foundation Junior Board: Elevating the Mother/Baby Experience

Elevating the Mother/Baby Experience · 20 March 2022
Greetings! My name is Aleksandra Mixon and I am a junior at Summit High School. I represent my school on the Overlook Foundation Junior Board and our focus this year is to renovate the Frank and Mimi Walsh Maternity Center. As a collective board, we see firsthand the work that is done at the Center and understand the improvements needed to enhance the quality of stay at Overlook Medical Center for postpartum patients. Many women must share rooms with other patients, which strips them and their families of privacy following delivery. I, myself, was born in the Center and have worked at OMC as a volunteer, which is why the facility and this cause specifically are so close to my heart. While volunteering, I often think about the discomfort the mothers and families must feel when a stranger, such as myself, arrives to discharge another patient from the same room. Last year, I became a Godmother to my baby cousin, who was born during the pandemic in 2020, which has enlightened me about the importance and necessity of improving the stay of mothers and their babies at OMC, as their maternal relationship begins to form immediately after birth. Our planned improvements will provide a new level of privacy, safety, efficiency, and amenity to Mother/Baby patients at OMC, which are all indispensable factors for mothers and their children to begin establishing intimate and close relationships.
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