St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital Celebrates “Sweet Beginnings” with Delivery of First Baby

Newborn is Second Generation “St. Luke’s Baby”

(Sugar Land, TX) Oct. 14, 2008 – St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital celebrated the birth of the first baby ever delivered at the facility at 8:58 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13. The new hospital opened only three days earlier, on Friday, October 10. Healthy baby boy, Colvin Kohn, weighed 9 pounds and .01 ounces and measured 21 ½ inches long.

Parents Angela and Isack Kohn were ecstatic after the delivery, as they had planned to be the first parents to deliver their firstborn child at the new hospital’s “Sweet Beginnings” Family Birthing Center. Angela Kohn was born at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in the Texas Medical Center 24 years ago, where her mother Doreen Perez has practiced nursing for the past 27 years. On Tuesday evening, Angela and Isack realized their wish. The baby was delivered by obstetrician/gynecologist Jagjit Khairah, DO, a Kelsey-Seybold Sugar Land physician.

“We went through a lot to have this baby born here,” said grandmother Doreen Perez. “We were so excited that St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital was opening around the time of the expected birth of the baby. We made it through Hurricane Ike and other obstacles, and we are so happy that my daughter was able to deliver here.”

St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital has a complete floor dedicated to women’s services, including beautifully decorated private rooms with Internet access and flat screen TVs, a newborn nursery and a level 2 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Texas Children’s Hospital^®provides neonatology coverage* with availability 24 hours a day.

*physicians are employed by Baylor College of Medicine