2021 New Year’s Baby Arrives on New Year’s Day at Brookings Health

  • January 04, 2021
Philippa Taylor Escondrillas Smith arrived at 6:06 p.m. on New Year’s Day, making her the first baby of 2021 born at Brookings Health System. Holding Philippa is her father, Taylor Smith, and her mother, Macarena Escondrillas.
Philippa Taylor Escondrillas Smith arrived at 6:06 p.m. on New Year’s Day, making her the first baby of 2021 born at Brookings Health System. Holding Philippa is her father, Taylor Smith, and her mother, Macarena Escondrillas.

Philippa Taylor Escondrillas Smith arrived at 6:06 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2021, making her the first baby of the New Year born at Brookings Health System.

Philippa is the daughter of Macarena Escondrillas and Taylor Smith of Brookings, S.D. She weighed eight pounds and one ounce and measured 19.5 inches long. Mother and baby are both doing well.

The New Year’s Baby and her parents received a variety of toys, baby products, and, gift certificates of cash and services from local businesses and organizations. Contributors to the New Year’s Baby gift basket include:

  • Bel Brands
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Brookings Engraving
  • Brookings Health System Gift Shop
  • Century 21 – Shane Andersen
  • Dakota Bank
  • 1481 Grille
  • Image Studio
  • Prairie Perk Up Coffee Shop
  • Powershop Gym, Inc.
  • Salvation Army
  • SDSU Alumni Association
  • Winks
  • Wooden Legs
  • United Way

About Brookings Health System

Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed The Neighborhoods at Brookview nursing home, Brookhaven Estates senior living apartments, Yorkshire Eye Clinic, and medical clinics in Arlington, White and Volga, South Dakota. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and extended care services. Brookings Hospital provides local access to doctors in Brookings and offers robotic da Vinci surgery and Mako robotic-arm assisted procedures, making it one of the premier rural community hospitals in South Dakota. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.