Palomar UC San Diego Health provides extraordinary care, comprehensive education and constant support so you and your growing family receive the birthing experience you’ve planned for.

At Palomar UC San Diego Health, you and your growing family will have access to:

• Screening services and prenatal care, including high-risk pregnancy care
• Birth preparation classes and other educational events
• Private Labor/deliver/recovery (LDR) rooms
• Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) operated by Rady Children’s Hospital
• Breastfeeding education and support from certified lactation consultants

Explore our state-of-the-art facility at Palomar UC San Diego Health Medical Center Escondido.

Envision what it would look like when welcoming your precious newborn and learn about what Palomar UC San Diego Health can offer you along the way. This tour will include exploration of both the labor and delivery unit as well as the postpartum unit:

• No registration required.
• Please arrive 10 minutes prior to the tour start time.
• Meet in the main lobby after checking in with security.
• Paid parking is available in the garage.
• To ensure everyone has the best experience possible, we kindly request that children do not attend Birth Center tours, and that only one support person attends with the expecting individual.

Download our Hospital Bag Checklist.

Under Palomar UC San Diego Health’s current Labor & Delivery visitation guidelines, we are allowing three visitors (all ages) in the room with the laboring mother. If you have chosen to hire one of the certified doulas in our community, they will be able to accompany you as one of your three visitors during labor.

During postpartum care, patients can have up to four visitors between the hours of 8am – 10pm. A patients significant other counts as one visitor. One adult over the age of 18 years old is permitted for overnight stay.

We are constantly watching CDC recommendations and changing practice as needed, so keep in mind that things may change.

For more information about our policies during COVID, please review our FAQs.

Turn to Palomar Medical Center Escondido Birth Center for complete, compassionate care. During your pregnancy until your baby is born, you both will be the focus of a helpful and skilled team.

For more information about our Birth Center, please review our most frequently asked questions.

Call 442-281-2850 to reach staff at the Escondido Birth Center.