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NICU
Progressive NICU with Exceptional Outcomes
Pioneering the concept of comforting, family-friendly and all-private rooms for the care of critically ill babies, Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center achieves exceptional outcomes for its tiniest patients. In fact, 97 percent of infants born 10 to 12 weeks early survive.
Saint Elizabeth is one of only a few medical centers nationwide to offer all-private NICU rooms, which are environmentally designed to improve babies' survival and developmental outcomes. Medical advancements in the NICU include:
- High-frequency, oscillating ventilators to help tiny premature lungs breath easier
- State-of-the-art infant monitors that automatically send quiet, wireless "alarms" directly to the baby's nurse signaling a potential problem
- Adjustable light and sound levels in each room
- Three areas for oxygen and other vital hook-ups in each room - ?giving parents and grandparents the freedom to hold and cuddle their baby near, or away from, the bassinette.
A video library offers parents information on the unique challenges of infants in intensive care, their expected developmental process and helpful information on caring for them at home.
Unique developmental follow-up clinics are offered to all infants for three years
following their care in the newborn intensive care unit. Offering evaluation and
helpful direction for parents and helping assure that each child reaches their
maximum developmental levels.
Dr. Bobbi Hawk
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Dr. BJ Wilson
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For more information, please call 402.219.7000.