Children’s Dedicated 100 percent to improving babies’ lives

 

The Children's Hospital Newborn
Center has provided world-class
intensive care since 1965. Our
extensive facilities, technology
and consulting expertise bring
together the benefits of
comprehensive state-of-the-art
patient care, teaching and leading
research.

As the center of your family, you are your child’s primary source of strength and support. Your world revolves around your little ones as you make day-to-day decisions guiding his or her future and well-being.

Focused on family-centered care, The Children’s Hospital believes the best outcome for your child is achieved when families and healthcare professionals work together. We’ve been working with families for generations.

Since 1965, Children’s Newborn Center has provided world-class intensive care—supported by the compassion and expertise of our collaborative pediatric team—to newborn babies in the Rocky Mountain region. Today, our program cares for more than 750 babies every year who are referred from within a 10-state region.

A regional level three C 45-bed nursery, Children’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides comprehensive newborn care during the neonatal period – up to 45 days post full-term delivery. The NICU gives special attention to lighting, noise control and overall facility design to encourage your baby’s comfort and progress. The quiet environment, which supports the babies’ overall brain development, physiological stability, and sleep and wake cycle, will carry over to The new Children's Hospital , where Children’s will be a “quiet” hospital.

“Building a new facility from the ground up presents Children’s with a unique advantage,” said Jerrod Milton, Children’s director of campus transition. “Instead of attempting to retrofit an existing facility with the infrastructure requirements needed to achieve a ‘quieter’ hospital, Children’s proactively designed components into the architecture of the new hospital.” 

The expanded NICU at the new hospital will feature 60 beds and a healing environment for our tiniest of patients. A few of the innovations include nearly all private rooms, as distinct from the historically open-design of many intensive-care bed spaces; a “pinwheel” design with high partitions that allow nurses to monitor patients and afford families much-appreciated privacy; sound-absorbing acoustical ceiling and rubber-backed flooring to absorb and suppress sounds.

A milk lab has also been incorporated where preparation, storage and distribution will be centrally monitored and quality controlled, providing the “gold standard” for parents, patients and staff. In addition, private rooms complete with bathrooms will offer a comforting experience for new mothers and their infants. 

The Children’s Hospital is the only Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) training center in the region, providing special training for professionals working with infants in the intensive care environment. Our extensive facilities, technology and consulting expertise bring together the benefits of comprehensive state-of-the-art patient care, teaching and leading research.

Children’s dedication to providing quality care recently earned the NICU recognition by United Resource Networks as the first in the nation to be named a Center of Excellence. The award is based on several quality indicators, including volume, outcome, pediatric surgical capabilities, program experience and the hospital’s commitment to ongoing clinical quality initiatives.

“Patients and their care managers can be assured that Children’s center was chosen for exceeding the best performance standards, and for our proven track record with expertise and outcomes,” said Lynn Cavaliero, Children’s NICU clinical director.

In keeping with its vision of working in partnership with other leaders in health care, The Children’s Hospital is working with national and local March of Dimes organizations to meet the needs of NICU families with a variety of programs to improve babies’ lives. In fact, The Children’s Hospital’s NICU Family Support Program, developed by March of Dimes, is celebrating its 5-year anniversary.

The program continues to provide information and comfort to families of premature and other critically ill newborns. From scrap booking to educational resources and events, the program addresses the needs of NICU patients' families throughout the newborn's hospitalization, transition home and in the event of an infant's death.

Five years ago, Children’s NICU Family Support was one of the first in the country; now there are nearly 40 NICU Family Support Programs in hospitals across the U.S.  

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