Unit Description: The Birthplace at Christus Schumpert has an 8-bed LDRP Unit with two dedicated operating suites and two 2-bed recovery rooms for a total capacity of 12 beds. Our labor unit utilizes a birthing room model of care, in which our patients labor, deliver, and recover in the same suite. Following an uncomplicated recovery, our patients will either remain in the birthing suite or are sometimes transferred to our 14- bed ante-partum/postpartum unit. Our staff in Labor and Delivery, pos...