FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2001
CONTACT: Lisette McSoud Mondello
SENATOR HUTCHISON ATTENDS GRAND OPENING OF
WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER'S NEW BIRTHING CENTER
LACKLAND, AFB -- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison today told families and medical personnel gathered for the dedication of Wilford Hall's new birthing and neonatal intensive care center that their facility fulfills the military adage that, "We recruit the airmen, but we retain the family."
"Quality of life for our military families is a critical component to fulfilling that mission," she said, "and access to the best health care in the world is an important factor. We must provide those who risk their lives for our safety and our freedom with the best doctors and nurses, in the best hospitals, with the best equipment available."
The Senator toured the Hauth Birthing Center, where mothers with noncomplicated deliveries may remain in one hospital room throughout their stay, and the deLemos Neonatal Care Unit, where up to 30 infants may receive state-of-the-art critical care.
"These two facilities concentrate on the beginning of life's journey," said Senator Hutchison, who is the ranking Republican on the Appropriation Committee's military construction subcommittee. "Our country has always fielded the most advanced military technology in the world. Today we are opening the most advanced obstetric facilities in the Department of Defense. And we are doing this to care for our most precious patients – mothers and their newborns."
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