Me and Angie - oh yea, we go way back...

After extensive research on where to actually give birth in a city that is continually growing in knowledge through research and experience we decided on last year's NY magazine's number one choice - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center.

GIVING BIRTH
New York–Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell

Bringing Junior into the world, happily, isn’t usually a life-and-death situation. But if things go wrong, the best place to be is New York–Presbyterian, Weill Cornell. Cornell is one of just eight institutions in New York City with a Level 4 (the highest rating) neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) and one of just two hospitals in the city with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO), essentially an infant heart-lung machine, said to be the state-of-the-art technology in emergency neonatal care. Of the 50 OB/GYNs on staff at Cornell, ten are high-risk specialists, and they get a lot of practice, delivering more high-risk babies than any other hospital in New York. Last year, the team delivered approximately 4,800 children, 50 percent of whom fell into the high-risk category. Led by Dr. Frank Chervenak, Cornell doctors are also research forerunners. Dr. Robin Kalish, director of clinical maternal fetal medicine, has identified genetic markers that can help identify patients who may be at risk for preterm labor in multiple births. “Cornell has a very strong maternal-fetal medicine unit,” says Dr. Mehmet Genç, an internal-fetal-medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, one of the most highly thought-of OB/GYN hospitals in the country. “It’s one thing to have a single famous doctor, but you really have to have a group with expertise. That’s what makes the difference at Cornell.” Cornell’s eleven labor-and-delivery suites are spacious and attractive and outfitted with modern birthing beds. Recovery takes place in one of the 50 shared or 11 private rooms, including three suites. Cornell’s uptown sibling, Columbia, which also has a Level 4 NICU and ECMO device, also excels in the high-risk category—19 out of 31 OB/GYNs are high-risk experts (though they split their time between Columbia and New York–Presbyterian’s Allen Pavilion in Inwood). Located in the newly constructed Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia’s NICU is part of a unique, comprehensive high-risk-pregnancy program. Specially trained obstetricians and pediatric subspecialists (in neonatology, cardiology, cardiac surgery, genetics, orthopedics, urology, neurology, neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, and other disciplines) can manage the care of a high-risk pregnant woman, all under one roof, from the earliest stages of pregnancy through the birth of her child and beyond.

Oh yea...and Angelina highly recommended the digs after the hospital saved her little Zahara's life after her arrival in America two years ago.
God Bless them....