Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU)

The Level III NICU at Greenwich Hospital provides inpatient intensive care, consultative support for critically ill newborns in Connecticut and beyond. The expert medical team are specialists in the care of critically ill newborns.

The skylit unit is located next to the Maternity, and Labor and Delivery units. Our tiniest patients are monitored 24 hours a day by Yale Medicine neonatologists, nurse practitioners and specially trained nurses. The NICU contains the most sophisticated and up-to-date equipment to treat babies who need this specialized care.

Yale New Haven Health is proud to be recognized by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program for educating parents about safe sleep practices for newborns. The certification was created by Cribs for Kids ®, a national infant safe sleep organization dedicated to preventing infant sleep-related injuries and deaths due to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and accidental suffocation. Yale New Haven Health holds a bronze-level, system-wide designation.

Our Team

In addition to board-certified Yale Medicine neonatologists, the specialized newborn care team at Greenwich Hospital consists of physician assistants, nurses, neonatal advanced practice providers, clinical nurse specialists, a board-certified breast-feeding medicine specialist, respiratory care practitioners, social workers, dietitians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and lactation specialists in the unit to provide round-the-clock care. Our lactation specialists provide breastfeeding mothers lactation support seven days a week.

Yale Medicine pediatric specialists from Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital are available for inpatient consults and outpatient follow-up visits when appropriate. These pediatric specialties include gastroenterology, cardiology, urology, ear, nose and throat (ENT), endocrinology, and surgery, to name a few.