The Hospital of Choice for Newborns Requiring Intensive Caring
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Miami Children's Hospital is proud to serve as a regional, national, and international Level III D referral center, receiving critically ill newborns from throughout South Florida, as well South and Central America and the Caribbean.
The 39-bed unit Level III unit has earned the confidence of families and referring hospitals near and far, maintaining a 98 percent survival rate - one of the best in the nation - even as it cares for the region's most severely ill newborns. In addition, MCH is currently in the process of designing and building a new, state-of-the-art 56 bed, individual private room NICU scheduled for completion in 2007. Our program is nationally recognized by U.S. News & World Report.
Care for Premature and Critically Ill Children
Miami Children's NICU provides care for more than 800 critically ill newborns each year. In the past 20 years the NICU, which was the first of its kind in South Florida, has received more than 10,000 premature and critically ill babies from throughout Florida and Central and South America. Most of these neonates were born at community hospitals after a premature or high-risk delivery. Approximately 60 percent of the babies admitted to the unit weigh less than three pounds.
Newborns with these and other serious diagnoses are also referred to the NICU:
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Sepsis (serious infections)
- Congenital anomalies
- Respiratory failure
- Trauma
- Seizures
For more information, please call 305-669-5817.
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