About the Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit
The Harriet and Ronald Lassin Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit is a state-of-the-art intensive care unit that provides care for newborns and young infants. The unit serves critically ill newborns and premature infants who need general medical or surgical intervention, ECMO or apnea screening. It also accommodates patients with other medical problems who need the expertise of newborn intensive care staff .
Better meeting your needs
Our recently renovated and expanded N/IICU has a variety of amenities for families and staff, including:
- Sleep chair at bedside for parents
- Larger sleep and shower rooms for parents
- Diurnal lighting to simulate the day-to-night cycle for your baby
- Large family lounge with a kitchen and computers
- Lactation rooms with breast-milk refrigerators and freezers
- Large consultation rooms for staff-family meetings
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Bedside computer work space for staff.
About our team
The newborn care team provides care to babies in the Center 24 hours a day. Our team includes:
- Attending physicians
- Fellows
- Residents
- Staff nurses
- Neonatal nurse practitioners and clinical specialists
- ECMO specialists
- Clinical staff
- Charge nurses
- Respiratory care practitioners
- Social workers
- Physical therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Speech pathologists
- Dietitians
- Case managers
- Lactation specialists
Learn more about the role each team member plays in caring for your baby
Teamwork in the N/IICU
The nursing staff is organized into teams that provide family-centered care from admission through discharge.
The medical staff is also organized into teams, led by a senior neonatologist (a specialist in newborn intensive care). Fellows, pediatric residents, neonatal nurse practitioners, or pediatricians work with the neonatologists on each team to provide care for 12 - 15 babies.
One of the medical teams is devoted to the care of newborns requiring surgery, and specialized nurse practitioners and surgeons work with the neonatologists on this team.
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