Women’s Health Services

Knapp Medical Center Provides Award-Winning Care; Attractive Facilities, Close to Home for New Moms & Babies

The maternity center at Knapp Medical Center enables women in the Mid-Valley to enjoy the beautiful experience of a child’s birth in an attractive and very convenient setting that is close to home and the support of their family.

Knapp Medical Center is one of only 12 hospitals in the entire state of Texas to receive all three “Women’s Care Specialty Excellence Awards” from Healthgrades, a national healthcare information company. The three awards are for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Labor and Delivery, and Gynecologic Surgery.

Knapp has also received several awards for patient safety, including an excellence award from Healthgrades. To continue to protect the safety of patients, staff, and the community, all patients and healthcare workers are screened at the entrance of the hospital during this time.

Contact the Knapp Medical Center Scheduling Department at 956-969-5478 for pre-registration.

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Knapp Medical Center loves helping families to grow! Our Women’s Health Services Department includes three patient care units: Labor and Delivery, Nursery, and Postpartum.

The Knapp Labor & Delivery (L&D) Unit has seven private rooms where mothers labor and deliver in the same room.

Adjacent to the Labor, Delivery & Recovery (LDR) rooms are two operating rooms for mothers requiring a cesarean section. The same nursing professionals who assist the patient in labor are also trained to assist the obstetrician during the cesarean section, offering continuity of caregivers.

Patients recover briefly in Labor & Delivery before being moved to a private room in our refurbished Postpartum Unit, where they may choose to have their newborn “room-in” with them.

The newborn nursery is also located on the same floor, just a short distance from the postpartum rooms.

Prior to the baby’s arrival, expectant parents can pre-register at the Knapp Medical Center Admitting Office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Pre-registration for C-Section deliveries should be scheduled by the attending physician.

What we offer our patients:

Private Labor & Delivery birthing suites
Private hospital room available to all patients after delivery
Anesthesia care clinicians are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to consult with your obstetrician to meet your pain management needs
Flexible newborn room-in option
Staff trained in Neonatal Resuscitation with Certification
State-of-the-art security for the safety of your newborn during your hospital stay
Highly-trained Neonatologists available on a rotation basis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week specifically for Knapp Medical Center

Level II, Maternal Specialty Care

The hospital generally provides care for pregnant and postpartum patients with medical, surgical, or obstetrical conditions that present a low to moderate risk of maternal morbidity or mortality. This includes:

Ability to perform emergency cesarean deliveries
Ultrasonography available 24/7
Management of obstetrical hemorrhage
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Anesthesia readily available at all times
Maternal fetal medicine available for consult

Level II, Neonatal Specialty Care

Level I capabilities plus Special Care Nursery:

Provide care for infants born ≥32 wk gestation and weighing ≥1500 g who have physiologic immaturity or who are moderately ill with problems that are expected to resolve rapidly and are not anticipated to need subspecialty services on an urgent basis
Provide care for infants convalescing after intensive care
Provide mechanical ventilation for brief duration (<24 h) or continuous positive airway pressure or both
Stabilize infants born before 32 wk gestation and weighing less than 1500 g until transfer to a neonatal intensive care facility

Birthing Class Events

Join us for our Birthing Class Events held second Saturday of every month 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Administrative Classroom
Contact: 956-968-8567 Ext. 4306

Please register for Birthing Classes here.

Car Seat Distribution Program

Knapp is a distribution site for the Safe Rider Course available to low‐income English or Spanish-speaking families in our community. Each eligible family will receive one FREE car seat. Families must attend a one‐hour class to learn how to use the car seat correctly.

The patients interested in the car seat class please register with Selina and her phone number is (956) 969-5360.
* Region is the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX Census Bureau Statistical Area as defined by the federal government’s Office of Management and Budget