Neonatal Intensive Care Units
at Capital Health
The Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Capital Health Regional Medical Center
The Regional Perinatal Center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center is the home of Mercer County's only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Capital Health's NICU has been named a Center of Excellence for successful respiratory outcomes by the Vermont Oxford Neonatal Network (VONN), a neonatal network and multi-national database of which Capital Health is one of 300 participating NICUs.
The VONN has requested that Capital Health's NICU serve as a benchmarking center for particular areas of neonatal management, designating the NICU as a center for other facilities to use as a model.
The NICU includes:
- 24/7 in-house obstetrical, neonatal, anesthesiology and midwifery coverage
- 4 board-certified neonatologists on staff
- 1 neonatal nurse practitioner
- 30 bassinets in NICU
- 15 Intensive Care bassinets
- 15 Intermediate bassinets
The Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Josephine Plumeri Birthing Center at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell
The NICU includes:
- 24/7 in-house obstetrical, neonatal, anesthesiology and midwifery coverage
- 4 board-certified neonatologists on staff
- 1 neonatal nurse practitioner
- 30 bassinets in NICU
- 15 Intensive Care bassinets
- 15 Intermediate bassinets