The Family Maternity Center's Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU), operated in partnership with Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center of Seattle, provides critically ill and unstable newborns with technologically complex care, as well as constant observation and monitoring. The unit's staff includes an on-site team of neonatal nurse practitioners who are expertly trained to manage newborn emergencies and are available 24 hours a day. They work closely with the Center's neonatologists in addition to assisting you and your child's physician in the care of your newborn.
The NICU is equipped with 23 single-patient private rooms (six of these beds are designated as Level III NICU beds) and three double rooms for hospitalized twins. All are designed to encourage your family's presence and participation. Each room offers a sleeper and rocking chair so parents can stay near, and is located in close proximity to nursing stations to accommodate communication with caregivers.
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