Ashley Regional Medical Center Welcomes First Baby of 2025
January 3, 2025
VERNAL, UT (January 3, 2025) – Ashley Regional Medical Center is ringing in 2025 with the year’s first bundle of joy. Weighing 8 pounds and 7 ounces and measuring 22 inches, Kairos was born to Marcella and Trelle, Wednesday, Jan. 1, at 12:45 a.m.
“Special thanks to the amazing labor and delivery team at Ashley Regional Medical Center for getting our baby boy here safe! Thank you, Dr. Kayden Barber, Janine, Megan, Kami, Erin, Meghan, Kathryn, Mike, Holly, Amber, Shae, Ally and Janna!” said Marcella. She continued, “We are so honored and grateful to the community for spoiling us and our New Year’s baby. Thank you to each and every one of the businesses and individuals who showered us in gifts.”
Ashley Regional Women’s Center is dedicated to providing high quality, compassionate care close to home for new and expecting parents in the Basin. The Women’s Center offers a level two neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), certified lactation counselors and free childbirth preparation and breastfeeding classes to anyone in the community.
“After a grueling labor, Marcella impressed us all with her strength during her natural delivery,” said Kayden Barber, MD, FP/OB at Ashley Regional. “It was an honor to help care for her and her family as the first baby of the year here at ARMC!”
Ashley Regional Women’s Center is grateful to all the local businesses that generously donated a gift to the family in the New Year’s Baby gift basket. Thank you goes out to My529, Uintah Rec District, Bloom Nail Salon, Alanas Arrangements, Aarons, Fig and Pig, The Valley Steak House, Jimmy Johns, Wingers, Natasha Huber Photography, Four Brothers Pizza, Kooke, Territory, Wild Mountain fine Jewelers, Adara, Basin Appliance, Carols Kitchen, Basin Sports, Swains, Betty’s, Vernal Cinema 5, Grilled and Glazed, Lola Lash Studio, Abby’s and Ooh La La and Friends Salon.
Ashley Regional Women’s Center is located at 150 W 100 N in Vernal, UT. To learn more or to schedule an appointment, please call 435.789.3342, or visit AshleyRegional.com.
About Ashley Regional Medical Center
Through its 39-bed, Joint Commission-accredited acute care facility and physician practices, Ashley Regional Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient services to the populations of Uintah, Duchesne and Daggett counties in Utah and Rio Blanco County in Colorado. Ashley Regional has been serving the Basin for more than 80 years and is a designated Level IV trauma center, an Accredited Chest Pain Center and has been designated as a Stroke Receiving Facility by the Utah State Department of Health. The healthcare workers provide safe, high-quality patient care across labor and delivery, surgery, imaging, outpatient care, the 24/7/365 emergency room and many other specialties. Ashley Regional has been recognized for excellence in quality indicators and measures, including being named a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital for eight consecutive years by Chartis Center for Rural Health and a 100 Top Hospital by Fortune/PINC AI for two consecutive years. Ashley Regional also received a Leapfrog ‘A’ grade for Fall 2024.
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