Our Division of Neonatology provides critically ill newborns with highly specialized care, the type unavailable at many other area hospitals.
The division's 42-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is designated by the state of Illinois as a Level III nursery, and typically cares for more than twice the children with life-threatening conditions than any other regional hospital. Nearly half of all patients brought to the NICU come from other regional nurseries that carry the same Level III designation.
Neonatologists often care for patients as part of multidisciplinary teams, including Heart Center specialists in fetal/neonatal medicine and cardiac critical care and pulmonologists in treatment of pediatric pulmonary hypertension.
Ranked 20th in the nation by U.S.News & World Report for neonatal care, Children's Memorial is only one of two hospitals in the Chicago metropolitan area that are ranked nationally among the Best Children's Hospitals.
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