Organization - Neonatology Service

The main objective of the Neonatology Service is to offer advanced, predictive and preventive care, care that is participatory (in reference to parental empowerment), and individualized: that is, focused on the baby and its family. It cares for 3,200 newborns each year, with more than 500 admissions, of which more than 100 are extremely premature babies.

The Service is governed by the following values::

• Excellence of Treatment

• Scientific rigor

• Honesty

• Integrity

• Respect for the workplace

• Teamwork

• Cooperation between levels of care

• Attention to the continuous improvement of quality

• Assurance of sustainability

The Service works in coordination with the Maternal and Fetal Medicine Service of BCNatal, which makes it a national reference in neonatal diseases, especially in prematurity.

The Service works in four great physical areas, so defined by their structural similarity and functions:

• Obstetrics rooms (2nd and 3rd floors)

• Transversal areas of urgent care: delivery rooms, emergency rooms, UCOI, Perinatal Psychiatry

• Neonatology Service (1st floor): it consists of seven NICU beds, seven semi-intensive beds, and 13 intermediate beds

• Monitoring areas: neonatal screening, External Consultations.

And three functional areas that group the following care processe:

• Low-risk baby neonatology:

  • Newborn term brought to term healthy

  • Newborn with low risk disease

  • Newborn emergencies (1ª week of life or post discharge)

• Neonatology of newborns at risc:

  • Perinatology

  • Birth room

  • Births at Hospital Clínic, Villarroel headquarters

  • Interconsultations Obstetrics

  • Intermediate newborns

  • Semi-intensive newborns

  • UCIN newborns

  • Family Space Newborns

  • Imaging techniques (NICU, MRI, etc.)

  • Neonatal Patient Safety Commission

• Follow-up neonatology:

  • Home care

  • External Consultation

  • Neonatal screenings

The main specialties of the Neonatology Service are:

• Prematurity

• Neonatal endocrinology

• Neonatal nutrition and breastfeeding

• Neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• Neonatal ventilation therapy

• Neonatal neurology and neurodevelopment

• Home care

• Neonatal screening (biochemical, auditory, visual)

• Environmental health and prenatal exposure to substance abuse

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (TEAF)

The Service has launched healthcare innovation and research programs: cameras in the Service's incubators, development of projects related to App design, 3D printing and virtual reality.