MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee will expand its Women’s Health Services with a new $16 million Labor and Delivery Unit. The new unit will include additional delivery rooms, Caesarean-section suites and patient-friendly amenities.

The Labor and Delivery Unit expansion is the second phase of a larger project to update the Women’s Medical Center on the campus. The first phase which finished in 2016 renovated the Post-Partum Unit. Future phases will include expansion of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Post-Partum Services.

Labor and Delivery construction will begin in April 2019 and is expected to open a year later.