Getting A Taste..

• Touring Kaiser Permanente in Baldwin Park for the first time, was such an exciting experience for me. I wouldn't have gotten such access if it weren't for my mentor, Deborah. She had shown me the clinic, then back into the hospital on the Labor and Delivery floor, the nurses station, nurses schedule, monitors that kept track of the newborns heartbeat and rate, delivery rooms, caesarean section/emergency surgery rooms, and recovery rooms. The labor and delivery rooms are designed to make a woman feel comfortable and at home as much as she possibly can. For example, the room is an open space with windows, has a personal restroom, wires and monitors are kept hidden behind huge cabinets, and newborns stay close to their mother and never leave the room (unless there is some type of emergency).