Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital offers remarkable care in a special place for little miracles - premature babies, multiple birth babies, and special need newborns through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). A NICU is a unit that cares for infants and that is staffed and equipped to provide continuous mechanical ventilatory support.

A Special Place for Your Little Miracle

While the thought of your child needing intensive medical care might raise many worries, you can be assured that Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a place your child will receive the best of care because it is designed especially for premature babies and babies who experience problems at birth. In fact, other area hospitals transport their newborns that need this expert level of care to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’s NICU.

Complex and High Risk Situations

The NICU, located on the third floor of the hospital is rated as Level IIIB, one of the highest possible ratings attainable. Equipped with the latest lifesaving technology, the NICU is staffed at all times by neonatalogists (doctors specializing in newborn baby care) and neonatal nurses—all are trained to care for the most complex and high risk situations among newborns. They are also trained and experienced in delivering twins, triplets and quadruplets.

Level IIIB NICU Designation

Shady Grove’s NICU is designated as a LEVEL IIIB, which provides for newborn infants with extreme prematurity (28 weeks' gestation or less) or extremely low birth weight (1000g or less) or who have severe and/or complex illness and have the most specialized needs that require advanced level care and services. Level IIIB units provide a broad range of pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists, including:

• Highly skilled nursing and respiratory care staffs
• Advanced respiratory support and physiologic monitoring equipment
• Laboratory and imaging facilities
• Nutrition and pharmacy support with pediatric expertise
• Social services, and
• Pastoral care