The NICU is among the region’s most advanced critical care treatment centers for premature and ill infants born in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Our services include:
- Prenatal consultations
- Neonatologists who are on call 24 hours a day
- Step-by-step planning for all critically ill infants
- A neonatal transport service, which acts as a mobile NICU to bring babies from other hospitals in the region via land or air, available 24 hours a day
- Support for NICU parents
- Transition services for continued medical and therapeutic care outside the NICU
Premature Newborn Treatment at MedStar Georgetown
The NICU offers treatments for conditions both common and rare. Specialty NICU services include:
- Breathing/respiratory treatments
- Ultrasound, CT scan, MRI and advanced lab services
- Nutritional support programs
- Whole body cooling
- Retinopathy of prematurity
Learn more about these specialty NICU services.
Multidisciplinary Pediatric Care
Babies being treated by the neonatology team at MedStar Georgetown have access to the full range of our pediatric medical and surgical services.
The pediatric medical subspecialty services include:
- Cardiology
- Critical care
- Dermatology
- Developmental pediatrics
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics/metabolic disorders
- Hematology/oncology
- Infectious disease
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary disease
- Transplant services (GI, renal and bone marrow)
The pediatric surgical subspecialty services include:
- General surgery
- Anesthesia
- Orthopaedics
- Urology
- Otolaryngology (ENT)
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Maxillofacial surgery
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Rehabilitation
