Published on January 01, 2012
Washington Adventist Hospital
Welcomes First Baby of 2012
Baby Girl
Arrives at 3:47 a.m.
Takoma Park, MD –
Washington Adventist Hospital
welcomed its first baby of 2012, a girl, weighing 8 lbs, 5.6 oz was born at
3:47 a.m. on January 1. Both mother and baby are doing well.
The
baby is among the first born in the Washington,
D.C. metropolitan area in 2012.
“As Montgomery County’s
first hospital, Washington Adventist Hospital
has welcomed the arrival of babies for decades and recognizes the special
experience of each birth,” said Miriam Rieger, clinical nurse manager of Labor
and Delivery at Washington
Adventist Hospital.
“We are excited to be a part of this birth and are looking forward to many more
at our hospital this year.”
The baby’s birth,
like all other births at Washington Adventist, was also announced by the
playing of Brahms’s Lullaby throughout the hospital.
Washington Adventist Hospital is a 281-bed
acute-care facility located in Takoma
Park, Maryland.
Washington Adventist Hospital is Montgomery County’s first cardiac center,
performing hundreds of open-heart surgeries and thousands of heart
catheterizations each year. The Hospital is the first accredited Cycle III
Chest Pain
Center in the DC Metro
Area. Washington Adventist Hospital is part of Adventist HealthCare, an
integrated health-care delivery system based in Rockville,
Maryland, that is one of the largest employers
in the state of Maryland.