Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

All of our patient rooms offer families privacy and a therapeutic environment to promote healing and developmental growth. Family resources include respite rooms, a laundry facility and a milk room. Additional accommodations, both short- and long-term, are available to families directly across the street at the Ronald McDonald House.

The NICU features a procedure room where a full range of care can be provided, from inserting a central line to performing surgeries to initiate extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The availability of the procedure room will avoid the need to transport critically ill infants off the unit for these interventions.

Our specially designed neonatal MRI machine took years to develop and is one of only two in the nation; and one of only three in the world. The new MRI is tailored to our tiniest patients and is centrally located within our NICU means these babies do not have far to travel if a scan is needed. It also provides faster and safer imaging to help neonatologists and neurologists better detect and manage brain issues in premature infants. This brand-new technology opens new opportunities for caring for these critically ill newborns with early interventions. It will also help advance important clinical research.

With an onsite pharmacy available 24/7, pharmacists will be on hand to address critical situations and rapidly fill urgent medications.

A new technology system will enable data and alarms captured from bedside equipment to transmit instantaneously to the neonatal team’s smartphones, providing the medical team with immediate access to critical information.