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The Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit

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Unique Advantages

The Special Delivery Unit offers an incredible advantage to fetuses that have the potential for having difficulties the moment they are born.

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In 2008, the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment opened the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit, the world's first birth facility exclusively for mothers carrying babies with known birth defects.

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Lynne Garbose: It was really gratifying to learn that, as donors, we could provide the seed money to start up this tremendous project.

Susan Shannon Amos, RN: This is the first unit in the world that will be able to house an obstetrical unit within a pediatric hospital.

Lynne Garbose: Philanthropy really is essential to driving these more innovative programs at CHOP.

N. Scott Adzick, MD: When one has such an environment, it naturally attracts a world-class and worldwide talent pool that all sort of congeal to make the next cohort of advances.

Lynne Garbose: There's going to be a lot of learning in terms of the teamwork in dealing with essentially two patients, but having one team.

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