NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) for Mercy’s Smallest Patients

Family Childbirth and Children's Health at Mercy - Baltimore

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Mercy’s Family Childbirth and Children’s Center is led by Dr. Susan Dulkerian. Our hospital’s NICU is a Level III-B intensive care nursery that delivers comprehensive care for babies who are born prematurely, babies born with congenital anomalies and any baby who requires special monitoring and care in the newborn period.

Mercy Medical Center – A Leading Hospital in NICU Care

Featured on national television on the Discovery Health Network documentary-style program, “NICU,” our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit includes a team of dedicated specialists who deliver care in a private, homelike environment. Mercy was one of the first hospitals in the Baltimore area to offer private NICU rooms, which allow parents to stay by their baby’s bedside and continue the bonding process.

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A Comprehensive Care Team for Mercy’s Smallest Patients

Our NICU is staffed with a team of professionals to care for your little one:

Neonatologists (pediatricians who are newborn intensive care specialists)
Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Nurses
Respiratory Therapists
Social Workers
Audiologists
Occupational and Physical Therapists
Developmental Specialists
Lactation Consultants

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All-Private NICU Rooms to Promote Family Bonding

The all-private NICU rooms in our hospital allow for individualized developmental care and create a more natural environment, closer to what the baby will experience at home.

Often parents of NICU babies are not prepared for a premature or sick infant and don’t want to leave their baby. At Mercy they don’t have to. One member of the family can stay overnight in the baby’s room, which is outfitted with a sleep sofa. Our Mother-Baby Unit is located nearby the NICU so new moms can easily visit their baby and spend the night in the baby’s room if they wish.

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Providing Care for a Variety of Conditions in Newborn Babies

As a Level III-B NICU, we care for babies of any birth weight and gestational age who experience the following conditions:

Prematurity
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and other respiratory disorders
Infection
Complications of the infant of a diabetic mother
Congenital anomalies, including congenital heart disease
Inutero growth problems
Disorders of the central nervous system
Substance exposure

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Specialized Services Offered at Mercy’s NICU

The NICU at Mercy is equipped with the latest technologies to diagnose, monitor and treat newborn diseases and conditions. Our NICU provides most types of neonatal intensive care, with the exception of major surgery.

Comprehensive care for all newborns, of any gestational age or birth weight

High frequency ventilation and Inhaled Nitric Oxide therapy (advanced respiratory care)
Pediatric subspecialist consultative services
Pediatric surgery consultative services
Advanced imaging including computed tomography, MRI and echocardiography
Individualized teaching for parents to instruct them on any necessary specialized care that their infant may need after discharge

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The Family Childbirth & Children’s Center at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, is a family centered facility for expectant mothers, newborn babies, pediatric patients, families and visitors. The Family Childbirth & Children’s Center is located within our award-winning Mary Catherine Bunting Center and provides patients with services, including advanced fetal care, expectant mother resources, labor and delivery, mother and baby services, NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and pediatrics. The caring team of obstetricians and certified nurse midwives at The Family Childbirth & Children’s Center has helped make Mercy Medical Center, named The Best Place to have a Baby by Baltimore’s City Paper, a leading choice for expanding families.