Women and Children's Hospital of
Lake Charles would like to invite you to share the wonderful experience of childbirth at
our facility.
Our Well Baby Nursery
and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are dedicated to providing unique care to the infant and
the family. Special emphasis is placed on making your stay with us as comfortable and
informative as possible.
Neonatal Intensive Care- This
nursery is designed to care for infants that are premature or ill, who have special needs
such as respiratory support. The staff caring for these infants consist of Registered
Nurse's, respiratory therapist, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, and a
Physician(Neonatalologist) that specializes in the care of pre-term or sick neonates. We
realize that having an infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit can be an emotionally
trying time. We place special emphasis on including you in the care of your baby.
Our
visitation guidelines allow you to see your baby as often as you like with only minor
restrictions. Grandparents and siblings are also allowed and encouraged to visit. A
multi-disciplinary team approach is used in caring for our special babies in the NICU.
This team includes the Neonatologist, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, bedside nurses, social
worker, and occupational therapist. We focus on family centered care which encourages and
promotes parent-infant bonding and attachment.
If anticipating a pre-term delivery, stop
by and see our newly renovated unit and state-of-the-art equipment.
A special part of our Neonatal Services
include a Neonatal Transport Team. This team is comprised of specially trained
RN's, a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Respiratory Therapist, and Neonatologist. This team
is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The team travels to surrounding hospitals and
transports critically ill newborns from a hospital without a neonatal intensive care unit
into our Level III NICU.
Special provisions are made to accommodate
the parents of infants transported in. We also provide the family with a 1-800 number to
facilitate communication when visitation is limited due to distance.
Please contact us anytime at: (337) 475-4171
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