Crouse Connects
Crouse isn’t just about healthcare. We’re about what we believe sets us apart: Carepassion™ .
We always say we’re not a ‘perfect’ hospital. But our physicians, nurses, providers and staff strive to listen to each patient and family member’s feelings and needs with the respect and dignity you deserve.
Our CrouseConnects blog is designed to talk about some of the ways we connect and do just that. How we work on achieving clinical advances that help us provide the best in patient care for our community and region. And how we try to tend to the “little things” — parking, getting around and dining, for example — to make anyone’s visit or stay at Crouse more welcoming and comfortable.
Category Archives: Women's Services
05/04/2021
Maternal Mental Health: How COVID-19 Has Isolated New and Expecting Moms
The COVID-19 pandemic has been very isolating for many people, especially those who have mental health conditions. In fact, in a May 2020 article for the Washington Post, William Wan wrote that the pandemic is “pushing America into a mental health crisis.” A June 2020 study from the CDC reported that “symptoms of anxiety disorder…
Read more12/30/2020
What to Expect: Delivering at Crouse During a Pandemic
Having a baby is an exciting time, but due to the COVID-19 virus, many parents-to-be are feeling anxious about coming into the hospital. Our Kienzle Family Maternity Center team has not missed a beat, and has been delivering babies throughout the pandemic with the same level of safe, compassionate care families have experienced at Crouse…
Read more05/28/2020
Crouse Leads the Way to Care for Mothers with Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder
As the upstate New York leader in OB care, Crouse Health delivers more babies — about 4,000 each year — than any other regional hospital. The number one obstrical complication is Perinatal Mood and Disorder (PMAD), according to Christine Kowaleski, DNP, MHNP-BC, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who has counseled mothers for years. Without treatment, PMADs…
Read more05/22/2020
When Normal Isn’t Normal: A Preeclampsia Survival Story
> DONATE NOW TO PREECLAMPSIA AWARENESS FUND May 22, 2020, is Preeclampsia Awareness Day. Crouse Health Foundation has established a special fund for which donations will enable Crouse Health to raise awareness about the condition (and about HELLP Syndrome) through programs and support activities. We thank Jackie Terribile of Manlius for telling her story of…
Read more04/22/2020
Delivering During the Pandemic: Safety First for Babies, Moms, Families
At 38 weeks pregnant, Jenn Scott is excited to welcome a new baby into her current family of three. Yet with a due date rapidly approaching, Jenn is more concerned with her health and that of her husband as she prepares to give birth during the coronavirus pandemic. Concerns During COVID-19 She already knows what…
Read more10/15/2019
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
When we think about pregnancy and motherhood, we think about the joy of welcoming a new baby into our lives. We don’t typically think about loss and grief. Crouse delivers 4,000 babies each year, and we can’t forget those mothers — about 120 annually — whose experiences aren’t what they expected and leave the hospital…
Read more08/27/2019
Breastfeeding: Things They Don’t Tell You
August is World Breastfeeding Month. The team at Crouse Health’s Kienzle Family Maternity Center recognizes a woman’s right to choose whether to breastfeed or not. During this month, in particular, we celebrate mothers who have are attempting to feed their babies human milk. What follows are some insights that may make the breastfeeding experience more…
Read more05/12/2019
Preemies, Parenthood and the NICU Journey
Every day is Happy Mother’s Day for Kasey Mathews and her family, including husband, Lee, son Tucker, and daughter, Andie, who was born prematurely, arriving at just 25 weeks. Weighing a mere one pound, 11 ounces, she survived and happily will turn 19 this fall. A 1985 graduate of Jamesville-Dewitt High School, Kasey was the…
Read more05/09/2019
Parenthood: It Takes a Village
You’ve no doubt heard the expression “it takes a village,” made popular in our cultural lingo with the publishing in 1996 of It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, a book by then First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton. The notion of it takes a village did not originate…
Read more02/05/2019
Providing Diapers to Families in Need
How many times a month does a baby’s diaper have to be changed? Any new parent can do the math: six to ten changes each day, times 30 days, equals about 300 diapers needed for a newborn each month. By any count, that’s a lot of diapers. But when parents are financially challenged, the cost…
Read more11/16/2018
New Crouse Health Urologist Developing Pelvic Health Program
After lifetimes of menstruation and childbirth, most women are more stoic about their health problems. That’s according to Buffalo native Hadley Narins, MD, who brings expertise in women’s pelvic health to the subspecialty program in Female Urology and Pelvic Health she is leading at Crouse. Although many women remain resigned to having various “female conditions,”…
Read more10/11/2018
My Experience with Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder
I had always wanted to become a mother. Since I’d had a miscarriage several years before this pregnancy, it was a huge relief carrying our baby to full term. Although I was excited and overjoyed, I was terrified to become a mom. I knew that it would be difficult at times, but I felt…
Read more08/28/2018
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder: What happens when the pink and blue balloons fly away?
Having a baby is an exciting time that we’ve been told would fill us with joy. Much attention is given to the pregnant woman planning for the big day and preparing for the joyful arrival of the chubby-cheeked pink baby with ten little fingers and ten little toes. Giving birth is, after all, the most…
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