The birth of children is always a joyful event in any family. The state program to promote fertility includes the construction of new and modernization of existing obstetric institutions. The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk) is one of the best in the country. In 2016, a new complex with modern equipment and technologies was opened, where they provide assistance to residents of the city and the region
History
In 2003, the Regional Perinatal Center was opened. Chelyabinsk is the city in which the institution was built. It was located in the building, where the "Regional Combine for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy" was founded in 1937 - this was written in the decree on the need to establish a maternity hospital. The facility was designed for a hundred places, immediately nurseries for children and a dairy kitchen worked.
During the war and in the postwar years, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Kiev Medical Institute evacuated to Chelyabinsk expanded on the territory of the maternity hospital . In 1970, the number of beds was increased to 170, and the organization was named "Regional Obstetric and Gynecological Hospital."
Innovation in the 90s
The nosocomial perinatal center was founded in 1994, the basis for it was the ultrasound diagnostic room. High-tech equipment helped specialists monitor the intrauterine development of the child, carry out early diagnosis of abnormalities, and so on.
As part of the institution, a medical and genetic consultation worked, the main tasks of which were prevention, treatment of hereditary pathologies, and contributing to the reduction of mortality of mother and child.
Description
The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk, Timiryazeva 17) provides the population with planned care and services in emergency medical cases. The main work of the institution is aimed at caring for pregnant women and newborns. The center’s services include counseling, diagnostics, rehabilitation of women in labor, pregnant women of any age, puerperas, women with impaired reproductive functions, as well as helping newborn children at risk.
Infrastructure
The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk was chosen as the place of its construction) has the following infrastructure:
- Advisory office for women.
- Inpatient ward.
- Laboratory of Clinical Diagnostics.
- Diagnostic department of ultrasound.
- Department of perinatal diagnosis.
- Administrative building.
The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk, Timiryazeva 17) conducts organizational activities aimed at helping doctors in municipal clinics and providing medical institutions in the region with methodological aids. The task of the service is to collect data on the work of gynecology and obstetrics centers for the Ministry of Health.
Hospital
The inpatient department of the OPC is a modern medical institution, where about two thousand babies are born every year, up to 1,300 surgical interventions are performed during childbirth, up to 400 abdominal gynecological surgeries and more than 1,500 endoscopic and gyroscopic interventions.
An important area of assistance is the monitoring, support of pregnancy and successful childbirth in women with Rh-conflict pregnancy, as well as with cases of a rhesus conflict in the mother and child tandem. For all the time of work in maternity wards, 350 thousand children were born. The regional perinatal center in the hospital has two maternity wards, a pathology department for pregnancy, a gynecological department and a prenatal diagnosis department.
Center divisions
The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk) provides highly qualified obstetric care to women with various pregnancy pathologies, such as miscarriage, the threat of premature termination and various extragenital deviations. The modern diagnostic center of the OPC carries out continuous monitoring of women with disabilities of pregnancy and, if necessary, gives an opinion on hospitalization at any time.
The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk) has structural divisions:
- Genetic consultation is one of the first departments that was opened at the OPC. Each year, more than 20 thousand women seek counseling services and receive qualified assistance. In addition to antenatal clinics, family services are carried out, the purpose of which is to identify abnormalities, pathologies (congenital, hereditary), a forecast is made of the birth of healthy offspring.
- Clinical and diagnostic department. Studies are being conducted - general clinical, isoserological, microbiological, biochemical, etc.
- The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk) began with an ultrasound diagnostic room. Ultrasound - one of the best equipment and personnel in the city. The ultrasound department offers all types of studies (70 items), reconstruction in 3D, 4D modes. In addition to diagnostic manipulations, specialists of the department carry out a number of medical interventions according to indications, correction of fetal development.
- Anesthesiology and resuscitation (round-the-clock observation, monitoring of the condition by non-invasive methods, etc.).
- Gynecological department. All types of surgical intervention (endoscopic, plastic, etc.) are performed.
- Department of Pregnancy Pathologies. Women are constantly monitored by doctors and nurses until delivery. The state of the woman and the development of the child are monitored using laboratory tests, specialists help determine the methods of delivery, for primogenous women a course of lectures on behavior during childbirth and child care is given.
- Maternity wards. The most joyful events take place in the wards of this unit. The clinic has created comfortable conditions, introduced the practice of constant cohabitation of mother and child. According to experts, feeding should occur on demand, this is taught to young mothers.
- Department for newborns. Children without developmental disabilities are in the ward with their mother, the department staff monitors the child’s health, vaccines, screening studies, etc.
- Intensive care unit for newborns. Children with developmental disabilities, pathologies, premature babies, etc. are under observation. High-tech modern equipment helps to stabilize the condition of the child. In intensive care wards there are devices for artificial ventilation of the lungs, monitoring devices that monitor the daily state of babies, incubators, a mobile ultrasound unit and other complex life-supporting equipment.

New center
In 2016, a new Regional Perinatal Center (Chelyabinsk) was opened. During its construction and equipment modern sanitary and epidemiological requirements were taken into account. It is designed for 130 beds, the planned load is five thousand deliveries per year.
The main advantage of the new institution is its technical equipment, which ensures the preservation of the life and health of mother and baby in difficult cases.
The center solved the problems for many women with chronic diseases for which motherhood was previously impossible. For example, patients with severe forms of diabetes under the supervision of specialists can give birth to several healthy babies. The new perinatal center has a special reception service for pregnant women with diabetes, which accepts women from Chelyabinsk and the region, and pregnancy support begins from the earliest possible date.
The center is located in Medgorodok and is adjacent to the Regional Children's Hospital, oncology dispensary and multi-disciplinary inpatient facilities. The medical staff is composed of highly qualified specialists who have passed the practice in the best clinics of the country. Many employees of the center received additional education in continuing education courses and in simulation centers, took part in specialized events - seminars, round tables, and conferences.
Maternity hospital
The optimal conditions for accompanying pregnancy and childbirth are available at the Regional Perinatal Center (Chelyabinsk, Timiryazeva 17). The maternity hospital offers women hospitalization at any stage of pregnancy, special attention is paid to those who have fetal developmental pathologies, chronic diseases, and the threat of premature termination of pregnancy. The center provides the opportunity to conclude a contract for childbirth, support of the birth process by a psychologist, the presence of a spouse is allowed.
To prepare for childbirth, women are invited to attend school, where they talk in detail about the process, behavior, proper breathing and give knowledge on caring for the baby. In the prenatal ward, single and double rooms are available, maternity rooms are designed for only one person. In the absence of pathologies and complications, a woman chooses the method of childbirth - vertical, horizontal or squatting. On the recommendation of a specialist and the desire of the mother, the method of pain relief is selected.
The maternity ward has emergency resuscitation and intensive care services that can cope with the most difficult cases. The postpartum unit is tailored to the needs of the mother and baby. In wards of superior comfort, conditions are created close to the home environment, common wards are designed for two mothers with a joint stay with children. Visitors may come to patients.
Separate directions
In 2012, the Regional Perinatal Center (Chelyabinsk) put into operation an innovative unit - “One Day Clinic”. Its main tasks include conducting screening studies for pregnant women at risk in the early stages, invasive research methods based on the results of analyzes, genetic counseling.
In the new Regional Perinatal Center, a department of reproductive technologies has been opened, where under the compulsory health insurance program you can get access to IVF. The selection of candidates for the program is carried out by the commission. You can find out details about the possibility to use the program during a personal consultation, an appointment is made by telephone in Chelyabinsk - 225 24 30. A package of documents is required for admission - a passport, insurance policy, SNILS, a referral from a patient’s gynecologist, an extract from the patient’s card made by a doctor.
Reviews
The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk) received positive reviews for the courtesy of the staff, attentiveness and calmness of all employees. Women in labor talk about the high professionalism of doctors, nurses, and the excellent technical equipment of the clinic and maternity hospitals.
Many were satisfied with the service, treatment and delivery process, which was as comfortable and competent as possible. Many patients with complicated pregnancy express gratitude for successful operations, healthy children and their own condition. It is indicated that women are given lectures on child care.
There are also disadvantages to the clinic. The regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk, Timiryazeva, 17) received negative reviews for poor cleaning of the bathrooms, crowded rooms, and the complicated process of processing documents upon admission to the clinic. Many did not like the fact that you cannot bring your own linen to the hospital, and there were not enough diapers given in the maternity ward.
In general, most patients recommend contacting this perinatal center, paying attention to the high level of training of doctors, technical equipment and modern types of diagnostics.
Address
The medical institution is located at two addresses:
- Timiryazev street, building 17.
- Streets named after Vorovsky, 70, building 12.
How to find the regional perinatal center (Chelyabinsk)? How to get by public transport to the clinic on the street. Timiryazev, listed below:
- Bus routes No. 14, 51, 23, 112, 28, 52, etc., to the stop "Regional Hospital".
- Minibuses No. 4, 103, 14, 104, 17, 115, etc., to the stop "Regional Hospital".
- Tram No. 6, 17, 20 to the same point.