Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Overview
Highest quality, family-focused neonatal medical care for newborns requiring close monitoring or specialized procedures.
Mission & Vision
Our Mission
Is to provide the highest quality care to all Neonates — cost-effective, family-focused neonatal medical care to our patients.
Our Vision
To be recognized as a highest center provider of comprehensive, evidence-based, cost-effective and family-centered neonatal medical care; a provider of excellence in service to our referring physicians; and a supportive, equitable and excellence-based group in which to practice neonatal-perinatal medicine.
Team & Staffing
The Newborn Services Complex is manned by highly trained health care professionals — Neonatologists, various Pediatric Subspecialists, Pediatric Residents, Lactation Counsellors, and Registered Nurses — who provide round-the-clock quality care for sick newborns using constantly advanced medical equipment.
Services Offered
- Lactation Counselling and Consultation to assist mothers in breastfeeding
- Routine Pulse Oximetry, Hearing Screening, and Newborn Screening
- Extraction method B1 B2 determination test for jaundice
- Initial care of all newborns delivered at the hospital
- Isolation care for outborns or babies with infections
Procedures & Tests
- Care for newborns delivered with difficulty or with low APGAR Score
- Care for premature and other high-risk infants
- Management of breathing irregularities (breathing faster than normal)
- Assessment and management of significant murmurs
- Management of chromosomal anomalies
- Treatment of hypoglycemia (low random blood sugar)
- Care for large/small for gestational age newborns
- Care for newborns less than two (2) kg
- Management of persistent low body temperature (below 36°C)
- Support for newborns with poor suckle or poor activity
Additional Information
As a Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital, DWH practices and advocates Unang Yakap (First Embrace), which involves non-separation (rooming-in) and early initiation of breastfeeding right after delivery. The NICU includes a treatment room, breastfeeding area, milk preparation area, and a discharge area for parent health instructions.