When the most advanced critical care is required, Barnabas Health is equipped with three Neonatal
Intensive Care Units that are state-designated as regional
referral centers.
 Our
neonatal teams consists of board-certified neonatologists,
specially trained nurse practitioners and neonatal nurses,
therapists, social workers and technologists who work together
under the principles of family-centered care. Neonatologists
are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide
care for fragile newborns, meet with families and for consultations.
Our NICUs provide specialized care for newborns and offer
New Jersey’s
only Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) therapy for infants in severe
respiratory distress. As a modification of cardiopulmonary bypass, ECMO aids
newborns who have not responded to usual therapies such as mechanical ventilation,
drugs and surgery.
The NICU services include:
- Regional Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/Apnea Program
- Jet and Oscillator Ventilation
- Nitric Oxide Treatments (the only program in the state)
- Neonatal Transport Team
- Comprehensive Parent Teaching Program
- Infant
Massage
Our survival rates exceed those of national benchmarks. While
our number of Low Birth Weight babies ranks amongst the highest
percentiles nationally, our survivals are among the top quartile.
The Neonatal Transport Program safely transports critically-ill
newborns to our hospitals and “back transports” many
to the originating Level II’s for recuperation. The
transport team consists of a neonatologist and a registered
neonatal nurse with special training in transport as well
as an EMT.
To attain the best outcomes for our babies, the High Risk
Infant Follow-up (HRIF) team of experts monitors and evaluates
the growth and development of infants at risk. The team consists
of neonatologists, a neurodevelopmentalist, a developmental
psychologist, physical and occupational therapists, a neonatal
nurse, social worker and an ophthalmologist. This same
team follows the infant after discharge from the NICU. To
ensure early identification of developmental delays and timely
referrals to specialists, infants are seen at one, four, eight,
12 and 24 months. Babies treated with ECMO are followed
to five years of age.
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