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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Memorial Hospital for Children in partnership with The Children's Hospital nationally recognized Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is the only Level IIIb NICU in southern Colorado. This means we have the expertise, technology and environment to provide comprehensive care to extremely high-risk newborn infants, as well as to those babies with complex/critical illnesses.

A team of neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners use innovative, proven techniques to care for critically ill newborns 24 hours a day. The care we provide is in a developmentally supportive environment where over 130 professionals, including NRP certified nursing staff, respiratory, physical and occupational therapists, care for our smallest patients.

The 60 plus bed unit is designed to provide medical, surgical and nursing care to babies born prematurely—as early as twenty-three weeks gestation—and to critically ill newborns with heart, lung or other congenital conditions. Diagnostic services, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs) for heart testing, electroencephalography (EEG) for measuring electrical brain activity, x-ray, lab testing and ultrasounds are performed at the bedside.

Memorial’s NICU is the preferred choice for care referrals from physicians throughout southern Colorado.

If an infant requires an organ transplant, burn treatment or care for certain rare, high-risk conditions, that child will be transported via Memorial Star Transport Services to The Children's Hospital in Denver.