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About Neonatology

Neonatal care. When everything matters, you seek world class.

Through treatment and prevention, we’re reaching out to thousands. Each year, more than 2,100 babies receive the highest level of care in Newborn Intensive and Special Care Units at Nationwide Children's Hospital. In 2009, we had the 2nd highest number of NICU beds of all pediatric hospitals, according to NACHRI. As one of the largest neonatal centers in the nation, we dedicate ourselves not only to treating, but ultimately preventing all complications of prematurity, including Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) and neurodevelopmental abnormalities. This extraordinary number of patients allows us to provide the highest level of experience and translate that expertise into programs that address fetal diagnosis and therapies, across the spectrum of newborn conditions, to essential long-term follow-up care.

Some of these programs include our newly developed Comprehensive Center for BPD, which provides inpatient, outpatient and telemedicine treatment for babies across the country, as well as our Neonatal and Infant Feeding Disorders Program, which works hand-in-hand with Children’s Center for Perinatal Research.

It’s the combination of all of these things with the dedication and commitment of our teams and families, which allows us to provide babies with cutting-edge interventions, exceptional care and, in turn, remarkable outcomes.

Advanced facilities enable us to provide an advanced concept of care.

From the newly renovated NICU on our main campus to our multiple off-campus special care units, our patients and their families receive care in the most technologically advanced and family-centered environments available anywhere. Nationwide Children's Hospital offers one of the few private-room NICU spaces in the country, as well as a select number of double and quad rooms to accommodate multiple births; all designed to care for the needs of babies and their families.

The Section of Neonatal Medicine – Fast Facts
July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011

Main Campus:

Inpatient Discharges: 935
Observation and Outpatient in a Bed Discharges: 5
Total Discharges: 940
Average Length of Stay*: 31.8
Average Daily Census*: 81.3
Total Patient Days*: 29,690
*Excludes observation patients
Neonatology Clinic Visits: 2,325
Neonatology BPD Clinic Visits: 952
Dublin Close To HomeSM BPD Clinic Visits: 257
Fetal Medicine Collaborative Clinic Visits: 17
Neuro-Neo Clinic Clinic Visits: 152
Total Neonatology Clinic Visits: 3,703

   

Nationwide Children’s Hospital NICU at Riverside Methodist Hospital:

Inpatient Discharges: 537
Observation and Outpatient in a Bed Discharges: 0
Total Discharges: 537
Average Length of Stay*: 16.4
Average Daily Census*: 24.2
Total Patient Days*: 8,829
*Excludes observation patients

Nationwide Children’s Hospital NICU at Grant Medical Center
 
Inpatient Discharges: 253
Observation and Outpatient in a Bed Discharges: 0
Total Discharges: 253
Average Length of Stay*: 17.5
Average Daily Census*: 12.1
Total Patient Days*: 4,429
*Excludes observation patients

   

Nationwide Children’s Hospital NICU at Doctor’s Hospital West

Inpatient Discharges: 144
Observation and Outpatient in a Bed Discharges: 0
Total Discharges: 144
Average Length of Stay*: 12.9
Average Daily Census*: 5.1
Total Patient Days*: 1,855
*Excludes observation patients

Nationwide Children’s Hospital NICU at Dublin Methodist Hospital

Inpatient Discharges: 91
Observation and Outpatient in a Bed Discharges: 0
Total Discharges: 91
Average Length of Stay*: 9.4
Average Daily Census*: 2.3
Total Patient Days*: 856
*Excludes observation patients
    Nationwide Children’s Hospital NICU at St. Ann’s Hospital

Inpatient Discharges: 298
Observation and Outpatient in a Bed Discharges: 0
Total Discharges: 298
Average Length of Stay*: 14.7
Average Daily Census*: 13.8
Total Patient Days*: 4,377
*Excludes observation patients


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