Spa City gets new childbirth center

CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs will open a new birthing center on Monday.

The hospital’s Anthony Childbirth Center includes 12 private birthing suites, better monitors and newborn bathing sinks with temperature-controlled faucets.

The Hot Springs hospital handles more than 1,000 births each year, a news release said.

The labor and delivery unit at another hospital operated by the nonprofit group, CHI St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, closed earlier this year.