WOODBURY, MN (January 01, 2010) – Loan Le and Tuan Tran had plans for a family New Year’s Eve gathering at their home in Woodbury, but had to cut them short and rang in the New Year at Woodwinds delivering the hospital’s first baby of the year and was one of the first babies born in the Twin Cities in 2010.

Their baby girl, Julianne, wasn’t due for another two weeks on Jan. 16^th, but she apparently couldn’t wait to begin the New Year and new decade. She arrived just after midnight at 12:23 am.

Julianne weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces is 19 inches long. She’s the couple’s third child and their first girl in a family. Julianne’s parents are Vietnamese, so her full name is Julianne Anh Tuyet Tran. Through an interpreter her parents said they believe that by having an American name and Vietnamese name their little girl ”has the best of both worlds.”

Her brother, Anthony, was born last year at Woodwinds on Christmas day. As the first baby of the New Year, she received a special basket full of all kinds of goodies from HealthEast Maternity Care.

Woodwinds, a member of the HealthEast Care System, delivers more than fifteen hundred babies every year and has delivered more than ten thousand babies since the hospital opened its doors ten years ago this August. 

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HealthEast Care System is a community-focused, non-profit health care organization that provides innovative technology, compassionate care and a full spectrum of family health services. HealthEast includes Bethesda Hospital, St. John’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Woodwinds Health Campus as well as outpatient services, clinics, home care, pharmacies and medical transportation services.

Practicing financial responsibility, HealthEast is the largest, locally-owned health care organization in the Twin Cities’ East Metro with 7,300 employees, 1,200 volunteers and 1,400 physicians on staff.