Maternity Tour – Akron Campus

At Summa Health, we recognize how important it is to see firsthand the space where you will complete one of your most important life events. Our new state-of-the-art Labor, Delivery, and Mother Baby unit provides 17 labor and delivery rooms with 36 private suites for recovery featuring a full bathroom to provide a relaxing, spa-like environment for new moms. The baby stays in mother's room the entire time unless there is a medical need for nursery care.

We are offer in-person tours and one online live tour a month. 

For the in-person tour: Use our WayFinder to help you find your way. You can park in the Summa Health Main Parking Garage on 25 N. Adolph Street.  You can also access the parking garage located behind the Williams Tower at 141 N Forge St.  You may also access the entrance to the parking garage on Fountain St. off East Market. When you arrive, please take the first-floor walkway into the Williams Tower located in the northwest corner of the deck.  There is a large lighted sign for the Main Entrance.  Go straight ahead after entering the hospital and your tour guide will meet you as you enter.

Summa is daily looking at our programs in conjunction with the CDC and all the recommendations to keep our community and patients safe and healthy.   With the Community COVID Level as Medium, participants must wear a mask.  We do not want anyone to come to our tours with a temperature, cold or respiratory symptoms, which includes any coughing. 

Our maternity tours take you through the following: 

• Arrival
• Labor and Delivery
• Special Care Nursery
• Mother Baby Units at Summa Health System-Akron Campus
• Q&A time.

The tours are free, however you must register.  The tours are only for the mother and significant other.  No children are permitted on the tour! No one else can come with you.

*One enrollment is reserved for two adults to attend together. Only one name per couple needs to register.

Please Note: If the minimum class size requirement is not met, you may be contacted regarding a cancellation, or if you are unable to attend, please call to reschedule.