Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Tour

Once inside, we were shown around the main pod. Currently they are able to offer about 80 square feet per bed or baby. The new recommendations are for there to be about 150 square feet. So they are in the middle of a five stage remodel. There are three NICUs in the city where I live, but this one sees all of the surgical cases. They even had a small surgery room in the NICU where anesthesia comes to do the surgeries and if the baby is too sick or too small to move, they will do surgery at the bedside. This hospital takes babies from a multiple state area. They were one of the first and still only in our state to do extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).