KHC strives to ensure that all of its patients receive exceptional health care. When it comes to patient care, we understand that many medical services can be delivered locally, either by one of KHC’s providers or a visiting specialist. However, we also understand that some services are best provided by a major hospital system or specialty center prominent in their field of medicine.

We feel it is important that women and their newborns have access to a prominent birthing center and neonatal center, should it be needed. KHC has formed a partnership with MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center for all newborn deliveries. Whether your birth experience is simple or complicated, the MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center obstetricians and birth center medical staff will provide you and your baby the best care possible.

Through this partnership, patients receive most of their prenatal care locally from one of KHC’s medical providers. Then, during a patient’s last few weeks of pregnancy, their care is transitioned to MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center for the remainder of their term and through delivery. Following childbirth and recovery, new moms return to KHC to receive their postpartum and well-baby care close to home.