Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Our 22-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit services critically ill infants from throughout the area. Our unit is part of a Level III Regional Perinatal Center, providing medical management for premature and full-term babies who require critical care services to help them through their first days, weeks or months of life.
 Designed With Patients and Families in Mind
Our NICU, which was designed with input from patient families, provides infants and their families with the individualized support and privacy they need to thrive.
Two isolation rooms accommodate babies whose conditions require extra precautions. Family sleeping rooms also are available during an infant's stay, as well as immediately prior to discharge to build confidence in caring for their baby.
Highly Qualified Staff
Our staff use the most advanced technology, including state-of-the-art monitoring and incubator support. Critically ill infants may be transferred to Children's Hospital-Fox Valley from referring facilities via our emergency transport service, which partners with ThedaStar Air Medical helicopter and Gold Cross ambulance. Transport service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
All neonatologists at Children's Hospital-Fox Valley are board-certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Each brings years of experience from other prominent NICUs throughout the country.
Our nursing staff includes advanced practice nurses and highly trained neonatal nurses, most with more than 15 years of experience.
 Exceptional Outcomes
A multidisciplinary approach to neonatal care ensures exceptional outcomes. When compared to Vermont Oxford averages:
- Over the last six years, our mortality rate average for babies weighing less than 1,500 grams is 33 percent better.
- Our average length of stay is eight days less.
- In the last three years, we have had less than one-fourth the percentage of patients with retinopathy of prematurity.
- From 2003 to 2005, our average percentage of infants with intraventricular hermorrhage was 12 percentage points lower.
Learn more by visiting our Why Choose Us? page, or by downloading our NICU Outcomes and Services brochure. |
