AUGUST 24, 2021 – Northfield Hospital + Clinics has tightened visitor restrictions as cases of COVID-19 increase, driven mostly by the highly contagious delta variant.

All visitors must be masked and keep social distance. Visitors with any COVID-19 symptoms are not allowed.

Join our Birth Center director Lisa Bauer for a live video chat Q&A to answer YOUR questions about our Birth Center! 

Second Monday of each month // 6:00-6:30 pm

Join the video chat anytime during the half-hour.

Not our patient? Just curious about our Birth Center? You’re welcome too.

It’s free, but you need to register for a video link: email babyclasses@northfieldhospital.org.

The OB/GYN providers of NH+C's Women's Health Center answer questions about vaccination against COVID-19:

 I’m pregnant. Should I get vaccinated?

Jessica Bohren is a certified nurse midwife . . . and a breastfeeding mom. Here’s what her COVID vaccination experience was like.

“It was a really hard decision for me to get vaccinated while breastfeeding. My original plan was to wait another month or two as more people got vaccinated, so I could see that everyone was doing okay with it.”

JUNE 14, 2021 – Northfield Hospital + Clinics is allowing more visitors to the hospital and the Long Term Care Center.

All visitors must be masked and keep social distance. Visitors with any COVID symptoms are not allowed.

In the Long Term Care Center:

JUNE 1, 2021 -- NH+C has completed construction on a major expansion of its Birth Center. New features include a Water Birth Suite; spacious new labor & delivery and post-partum rooms; new nursery; expanded waiting room. All spaces have modern design, state-of-the-art equipment, and thoughtful amenities. (See photos below.)

We want to enhance this fresh new space with artistic photographs of newborn babies, and pregnant women.

NH+C is hosting an open call for local photographers who would like to have their photo(s) considered for display in the Birth Center.

March 19, 2021 -- We’re having a Baby Parade! We’re celebrating all the fresh new spaces in our Birth Center . . . and the fresh new faces we welcomed this year! Help us celebrate the finish of construction on our bigger, brighter Birth Center. Join our Baby Parade! All babies born in NH+C's Birth Center are welcome for our Facebook & Instagram parade (psst, it’s a slideshow).  

UPDATED MARCH 5, 2021 – Northfield Hospital + Clinics is allowing some visitors.

In clinics:

• Adult clinic patients may have one visitor

• Pediatric patients may have two parents or guardians (no siblings)

• People with disabilities or dementia may have one support person

• Pregnant patients may have one support person for OB appointments and ultrasounds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020 – Northfield Hospital + Clinics no longer allows visitors at Northfield Hospital as of Tuesday, November 17.

NO VISITORS are permitted at Northfield Hospital.

Northfield Hospital + Clinics is prohibiting hospital visitors to protect patients and staff as COVID-19 cases rise across the region.

As of Tuesday, November 17:

NOVEMBER 9, 2020 – Northfield Hospital + Clinics is tightening visitor restrictions to protect patients and staff as COVID-19 cases rise across the region.

No visitors who are COVID-positive or have any COVID symptoms will be allowed under any circumstances. All persons are screened on entry for symptoms and temperature.

As of Tuesday, November 10, hospital restrictions are: