Neonatology/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Welcome

The Division of Neonatology at the Children's Hospital provides state-of-the-art, comprehensive specialty care to neonates with a wide range of congenital and acquired conditions. Our team of trained physicians, nurse practioners, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and other health professionals provide supportive, family-centered care in a technologically driven environment. The Division's expertise spans from the care of extremely premature infants to the care of term infants with a variety of medical and surgical illnesses.

Conditions commonly treated include:

• Congenital anomalies
• Genetic disorders
• Hyperbilirubinemia and jaundice
• Hypoglycemia and metabolic disorders
• Prematurity, infections, respiratory failure (acute and chronic) 
• Surgical conditions (congenital and acquired)

The Albany Medical Center Advantage
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Children's Hospital is a New York State designated Level 4 regional center for critically ill newborns. Our referral area covers 23 hospitals representing 22 counties of New York as well as Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. We provide intensive medical, surgical and nursing care, life support systems, electronic monitoring and a complete range of diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities and maintain an active infant transport service (air and ground).

A prenatal consultation service is provided by telephone and/or office visit to the Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center. In collaboration with referring obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists and a wide variety of medical and surgical sub-specialists at the Children's Hospital, the members of the Division counsel families who expect newborns with congenital conditions that will require care in our NICU.

Members of the Division are actively engaged in a large number of clinical research trials addressing a variety of neonatal care issues. Areas of current interest include: ventilation strategies for respiratory failure, timing and need of blood transfusions, prevention of nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections, hypothermia (low body temperature) for brain injury and assessing perinatal risk factors associated with outcome.

The Division also participates in the Albany Medical Center's mission of education by teaching medical students, pediatric residents and fellows. In addition, the Division conducts educational seminars throughout the year at many of the facilities in northeastern New York.

Contact Us
Phone:  518-262-5421