Program Highlights

The Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Phoenix Children's Hospital is one of the largest NICUs in the nation and a Level III nursery, which is the highest certification given by the Arizona Perinatal Trust.

Each year, approximately 1,300 babies throughout Arizona and the Southwest are admitted to this newborn intensive care nursery.

The team of Phoenix Perinatal Associates, Neonatology Associates Ltd., and the nursing staffs at Banner Good Samaritan and Phoenix Children's has cared for about 74 sets of quadruplets, six sets of quintuplets (read about the Wilkinson quints, born August 1, 2007), and two sets of sextuplets – including the Masche sextuplets born in June 2007.

The Phoenix Children's NICU has a 95 percent survival rate, one of the highest neonatal survival rates in the nation.

Phoenix Children's NICU has a staff of more than 250 healthcare professionals all specialized in the unique care of critically ill and premature infants.

Phoenix Children's is a regional referral center for ECMO, a heart-lung bypass procedure using special equipment that does the work of the infant's heart and/or lungs while their own heart/lungs rest, recover and develop.

NICU patients have easy access to consults from Phoenix Children's large staff of pediatric specialists and sub-specialists.

Phoenix Children's NICU has two units. The 33-bed unit on the primary campus at Thomas Road supports infants born throughout Arizona needing a higher level of neonatal care, surgery, or sub-specialist involvement.  The 76-bed unit at the Banner Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center campus on McDowell Road supports the Level III Perinatal Program, providing care for babies of high risk pregnancies, including those born prematurely, multiple births, and congenital anomalies.

Contact

Thomas Road NICU   (602) 546-1454

McDowell Road NICU  (602) 546-4900