Popular Locations
- Pediatric Specialty Center - Park Avenue Medical Center
- Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
- Yale New Haven Hospital - York Street Campus
Applying the latest developments and best practices in neonatology, we created a NICU designed to support family-centered care, enhance outcomes and advance research in neonatology. We are one of the first NICUs in the country to offer couplet rooms where mothers and their babies can remain together during their hospitalization. This unique model brings to the NICU the same standard of care provided to healthy newborns by fostering skin-to-skin contact and supporting breastfeeding.
The NICU, located on two floors of the Children’s Hospital, provides in-patient intensive care, consultative support and neonatal transport services for critically ill newborns in Connecticut and beyond. The devoted medical team has specialized expertise in the care of critically ill newborns and are leaders in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a special procedure that is used for life-threatening heart and/or lung problems.
All of our patient rooms offer families privacy and a therapeutic environment to promote healing and developmental growth. Family resources include respite rooms, a laundry facility and a milk room. Additional accommodations, both short- and long-term, are available to families directly across the street at the Ronald McDonald House.
Our specially designed neonatal MRI machine took years to develop and is one of only two in the nation; and one of only three in the world. The new MRI is tailored to our tiniest patients and is centrally located within our NICU means these babies do not have far to travel if a scan is needed. It also provides faster and safer imaging to help neonatologists and neurologists better detect and manage brain issues in premature infants. This brand-new technology opens new opportunities for caring for these critically ill newborns with early interventions. It will also help advance important clinical research.
A new technology system will enable data and alarms captured from bedside equipment to transmit instantaneously to the neonatal team’s smartphones, providing the medical team with immediate access to critical information.
Watch our videos about neonatal intensive care at YNHCH:
Visit our Wall of Hope, an album of children who spent the first weeks of their lives in the NICU and are now doing many great things.
A series of emails to guide you through early childhood and beyond.