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All obstetrical services for John Muir Health are provided at John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus.

The Birth Center at John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus
1601 Ygnacio Valley Road
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
925-939-3000
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The Birth Center features:

• 10 Labor/Delivery/Recovery rooms (LDRs), each with private bath with shower and fold-out bed for support partners, many rooms with views
• 34 private postpartum rooms, where moms stay after delivery. These private rooms also have accommodations for partners to stay overnight
• Six antepartum beds for at-risk patients or moms in preterm labor
• Two high-risk labor rooms
• Two operating rooms for Cesarean section deliveries
• 19-bed Community Level III Intensive Care Neonatal Nursery (ICNN)

For a John Muir Birth Center Orientation Schedule, click here.

A full range of educational courses is available to parents - from prenatal education to parenting support. Click here to view these classes provided by the John Muir Women's Health Center.

Lullaby Program

John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus celebrates each new birth by playing 30 seconds of Brahms' Lullaby over the hospital's public address system. This program is made possible by the John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus Auxiliary.

Infant Security

John Muir Health has implemented a sophisticated infant security program that tracks infants throughout the entire 3rd floor birth center.

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