High-risk Pregnancy

Fetal surgeons at Banner Good Samaritan perform several procedures that care for mothers and unborn infants experiencing serious complications during pregnancy.

Banner Good Samaritan is a nationally known center for high-risk obstetrics, the care of mothers and fetuses at risk for serious health complications during pregnancy and birth.

We are one of only six Arizona hosptials with Level III Perinatal services. We work in close partnership with Phoenix Children’s Hospital and its Level III Intensive Care Nursery is next to our labor and delivery surgical rooms.

Women come from around the nation, and in some cases the world, to receive care from our perinatologists (physicians who specialize in high-risk obstetrics) and our nurses and other health professionals. We provide expertise in a variety of specialties, including:

• Fetal therapy
• High-order multiples
• Critical care for expecting mothers
• General high-risk care.

Many women who are high risk are admitted to the hospital weeks prior to birth. They are cared for in our Antepartum unit where our caring and experienced staff works closely with expecting mothers and their families.

Fetal Therapy
Banner Good Samaritan is Arizona’s only hospital providing highly complex in-utero therapies to address fetal disorders before birth. These minimally invasive therapies include:

• Fetal transfusion
• Shunts
• Umbilical cord occlusions.

Banner Good Samaritan physicians and staff also have experience caring for pregnant women who have serious health disorders and who need specialized care. We can care for patients who face these challenges: 

• Stroke
• Heart failure
• Respiratory distress
• Diabetes
• Genetic evaluation
• Blood conservation medicine
• Cord banking.