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The Jim and Dede Walsh Family Birth Center

The Jim and Dede Walsh Family Birth Center offers you—the expectant mother and your family—a comfortable, relaxing environment. Your care will be overseen by a team of highly-trained, experienced health care providers available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The team offers compassionate one-on-one nursing care that both is meticulous and personal. An advanced nurse practitioner is available 24/7 should your newborn have any special needs.

Contact Information

Upstate University Hospital
Community Campus
4900 Broad Road
Syracuse, NY 13215

Labor and Delivery: (315) 492-5573
Post-partum: (315) 492-5577
Nursery: (315) 492-5575

For a physician referral, please call Upstate Connect at 315-464-8668 or toll free at 800-464-8668.

The family birth center includes:

  • Three triage rooms for evaluation
  • Six spa-like private labor, delivery and recovery suites
  • Two surgical delivery rooms for obstetric complications and Cesarean deliveries
  • Level I Nursery
  • An 18 bed all private room mother-baby unit.
The facility not only provides a warm and comforting place for you and your family, but is also well-equipped to handle routine as well as complicated deliveries. The private labor, delivery and recovery suite is beautifully and functionally furnished.

Your room at the center will include:

  • State-of-the-art birthing bed
  • Large Jacuzzi
  • Cable TV with DVD/CD player
  • Wireless internet access
  • Comfortable sleeper chair for a guest who wishes to stay overnight

For those who would like to experience natural childbirth using alternative pain management, our skilled obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives offer various options including birthing balls, hydrotherapy, and welcome coaching by doulas. As fetal monitoring may be necessary in labor, the center's monitors are waterproof and portable, allowing for close observation even while the mother walks or uses the Jacuzzi. Specialized obstetric anesthesiologists are available to provide epidural or other form of anesthesia customized to the mother's pain-control preferences. The mother-baby staff is ever-ready to assess your newborn and assist you in learning how to care for your baby.

  • Nurses and lactation consultants are also available to help you learn about breastfeeding.
  • Neonatologists and nurse practitioners are readily available to help care for the newborn, as well as actively consult and collaborate with the new mother.
  • Pharmacists offer advice on safety of drugs for the pregnant and lactating mothers.
  • Language interpreters are available.

Expectant Parent Program

The center also offers parents Expectant Parent Program classes during the prenatal period. The classes are taught by registered nurses trained in maternal child health from the health education department.

Breastfeeding Bill of Rights PDF document

The following medical practices have chosen Upstate University Hospital Community Campus's Birth Center as their preferred setting for labor and delivery:

Howard Weinstein, MD
Edith Westpfal, MD
Mary Wilsch, MD
Vanna Reisman, CNM
Mary Rose Altman, NP
 600 East Genesee Street, Syracuse
(315) 476-1645
8302 Provo Drive, Liverpool
(315) 652-0371
4900 Broad Road, Syracuse
(315) 492-2520

Myron Luthringer, MD
Jennifer Marziale, MD
Janice Beaman, CNM
Susan Kneeland, CNM
 4900 Broad Road, Syracuse
(315) 492-5915
37 West Garden Street, Auburn
(315) 255-5945

Allison Loi, MD
 Physicians Office Building North, Suite 2V
4900 Broad Road
Syracuse, New York 13215
(315) 492-2488

Heather Shannon MS, CNM, NP, MPH
90 Presidential Plaza, 3rd fl.
Syracuse, NY 13202
(315) 464-5210
Moving soon to the Community Campus

James Alexander, MD
764 West Genesee Street, Skaneateles
(315) 685-1691

Mark Antosh, MD
824 Franklin Park Drive, East Syracuse
(315) 432-1048

Lynn Hickox, CNM
7145 Buckley Road, Liverpool
(315) 451-9545

Fadi Makhlouf, MD
4900 Broad Road, Syracuse
(315) 492-5005