The Women & Children's Center encompasses many aspects of family care from childbirth through childhood and from adolescence to post-menopausal years.  Our mission begins with a family-centered approach toward the care of the childbearing family and remains consistent throughout the span of our services. Our caring and concerned staff assists women of all ages and their families to a state of wellness, and the consistency we deliver is enhanced by our beliefs in what health care means to the family.

We believe:

• The family is the basic unit of society
• A family-centered program of maternity care supports the family
• Prepares the family to function as a unit, and in doing so, helps strengthen the family
• Birth is a natural, normal process
• Your baby's birth is special and unique
• You, your family, your physician, and our staff are partners in providing comfortable, supportive atmosphere for your baby's birth
• You should participate in planning, and we encourage you to take responsibilities for your care
• You should leave the hospital confident in your ability to care for yourself and your new baby
• You and all persons involved in your baby's birth should be treated with dignity and respect
• Your developing child is special and unique
• Should your child require hospitalization, our family-centered approach is adapted to provide your child, you and your family support and quality care
• The measure of a hospital's value to the community is its ability to provide for the physical, emotional and spiritual care of the patient and his or her family throughout life
• The health care of women and their children is a unique responsibility that requires our most heartfelt effort

To pre-register for your delivery at DeTar Hospital North,
please call 361-788-BABY

The DeTar Healthcare System stresses a family-centered approach to childbirth and pediatric care. Since the hospital's beginning in 1925, DeTar has delivered over 60,000 babies. Many of our nurses have been here for ten years or more, and have achieved accreditation from the National Corporation of Certification of Obstetrical, Gynecological, and Neonatal Nurses.

It is that level of experience that has earned DeTar the reputation of being the leader in obstetrical services in Victoria and the surrounding area. Improved technology, skilled physicians and staff, and a superior neonatal special care unit have all contributed to the degree of excellence recognized in DeTar's maternal health program.

Housed in the newly renovated DeTar North campus, each patient goes through the entire process of labor, delivery and immediate recovery in a comfortable, homelike room. Gynecological patients receive the same focused attention and treatment. Like the Center's values, the physical structure of the Women & Children's Center has been designed to support you and your family.  The second floor of the Center has been dedicated to the care of women while the fourth floor has been designed specifically for pediatric patients. 

A labor and delivery suite at DeTar's Women and Children's Center

Included in our superior Women and Children's Services is a variety of educational programs such as Prenatal Classes, Parenting Classes, Big Brother & Big Sister Classes, Breast Feeding Classes, and much more. The Newborn Channel, an in-house television station, offers 24-hour access to educational features for the mother and the father about the care of a newborn child.

DeTar's Women and Children's Center provides a broad spectrum of services to diagnose and treat routine, acute, and chronic diseases that occur in infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Special features of the Women and Children's Center include a Pediatric Special Care Unit and an isolation room for Respiratory Syncytial Virus treatments. The Ronald McDonald Family Suite includes movies, games, and books appropriate for our patients.

Educational Opportunities for the whole family:

Educational Classes - Prenatal Classes, Parenting Classes, Big Brother & Big Sister Classes, Breast Feeding Classes, and much more.

To pre-register for your delivery at DeTar Hospital North,
please call 361-788-BABY