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The Harvard Newborn Medicine Program provides care for newborn infants at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
The Brigham and Women's Hospital has a 50-bed neonatal intensive care unit located in a new Center for Women and Newborns. There are approximately 9,000 deliveries per year and an active high-risk perinatal service.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center houses a 34-bed Level II/Level III NICU. The obstetrical service delivers approximately 6,000 babies each year, and there is a growing high-risk perinatal service.
Massachusetts General Hospital
The Massachusetts General Hospital has a 31-bed Level III, plus Level II, NICU with 3,500 deliveries per year including a high risk perinatal service. A 3-bed ECMO service is also provided.
Children's Hospital Boston
Children's operates a 24-bed Level III facility. Newborns are referred to Children's NICU from local, regional and international hospitals. The unit is responsible for a transport, triage and consultation service for newborns requiring any type of subspecialty care. The program's physicians work closely with Children's Hospital pediatric surgeons, who accept newborn referrals from hospitals throughout the Northeast.
The program collaborates with the departments of anesthesia and surgery to provide a 4-bed ECMO service. Children's Advanced Fetal Care Center, in collaboration with the obstetrical programs of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital, provides evaluation, genetic and obstetrical fetal images and invasive diagnostics, and in utero or peripartum therapy to the mother and child. Using interventional techniques, some problems are treated in utero to prevent neonatal disease.
The program also operates an infant follow-up program for high-risk NICU graduates. The clinic coordinates the efforts of pediatricians, neonatologists, psychologists, and physical therapists to evaluate NICU graduates up to their third birthdays.
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