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(MURFREESBORO) St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital is offering a Christmas "dream come true" for many families. Murfreesboro's local medical facility is now the second largest birthing facility in the mid-state.

This Christmas season, babies born at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital are sent home in Christmas onesies. They were specially embroidered with "Best Gift Ever" on the front of the onesie.

For more than 35 years, Saint Thomas Health has spread Christmas cheer by presenting infants to their new parents in Christmas apparel. More families trust Saint Thomas Women's Care to deliver their babies than any other hospital in Tennessee.

St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital at 1700 Medical Center Parkway also has a state of the art NICU facility at well. Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital offers a 16-bed Level II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), providing technology, expertise and timely care, with a neonatologist, an obstetrician and anesthesiologist in-house 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week.

In Tennessee, Ascension's Saint Thomas Health operates nine hospitals in addition to a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures, medical practices, clinics and rehabilitation facilities that cover a 68-county area and employ more than 8,000 associates. Across the state, Saint Thomas Health provided more than $127 million in community benefit and care of persons living in poverty in fiscal year 2018.

Serving Tennessee for 15 years, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world's largest Catholic health system, operating more than 2,600 sites of care - including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities - in 21 states and the District of Columbia. Visit www.sthealth.com.