NICU Follow-up Care Clinics and Programs
Our commitment to your baby’s health extends beyond their time in the NICU. Many babies still need specialized care and monitoring after they’re discharged to improve and support their development and quality of life. We offer several follow-up programs in multidisciplinary specialty clinic for specific conditions including:
- Newborn Medicine: for babies who were often born prematurely, have oxygen needs after discharge, or have weight or nutritional issues that might require feeds through a feeding tube, through the age of 2 or 3.
- Cardiac Neurdevelopmental: for babies born with a congenital heart disease to improve and support their development and quality of life by detecting needed therapy and intervention as they grow.
- Neurocritical Care: for babies born with neurologic conditions, offering ongoing research-based interventions and therapies to limit potential side effects related to their condition.
- Cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies: for babies born with birth defects of the head and neck, offering each child the best chance for a positive self-image, intact hearing, understandable speech, useful vision and healthy teeth.
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH): for babies born with CDH to help them overcome the challenges faced by CDH patients like chronic lung disease, reherniation of the diaphragm, pulmonary hypertension, developmental delays or behavioral issues.
- Spina bifida: babies born with spina bifida, even if a repair was made before birth, will need ongoing care and monitoring to ensure their best quality of life.
- Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: babies who were exposed to opioids while still in the womb will likely develop health complications and need continued health and developmental monitoring throughout the crucial first year of life.
- Nephrology/urology: for babies born with kidney disease or experience trauma to the kidney to provide proper ongoing care and management to improve kidney and urinary function.
