Gold Coast Health is recognised for quality patient care, nursing and midwifery excellence and innovations in professional nursing and midwifery practice under the Magnet® Recognition Program.
"Walking together in kindness" artwork produced for Gold Coast Health by Riki Salam, We are 27 Creative.
Newborn Care
This service provides care for babies born as early as 23-24 weeks gestation and those with other severe or complex illness including babies requiring certain surgical procedures.
Newborn Care at Gold Coast Health comprises of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Care Nursery (SCN), and are together termed the Newborn Care Unit (NCU). The service is located on the third floor of Gold Coast University Hospital and accepts sick babies from private and public hospitals across the Gold Coast and northern NSW.
A team of neonatologists (doctors specialising in sick infants), neonatal nurses and allied health specialists look after each baby and their family with input from many other teams in the hospital. The NCU manages babies born as early as 23-24 weeks gestation and those with other severe or complex illness including babies requiring certain surgical procedures. However, some specialised conditions require transfer of mothers and babies to Brisbane.
In addition Newborn care also provides:
antenatal consultation for complicated pregnancies
support to Maternity staff in review of well babies after birth
follow up of specific conditions in neonatal outpatient clinics or (in some cases) in the home
new and better ways to treat and care for babies through research
Gold Coast Health is recognised for quality patient care, nursing and midwifery excellence and innovations in professional nursing and midwifery practice under the Magnet® Recognition Program.
"Walking together in kindness" artwork produced for Gold Coast Health by Riki Salam, We are 27 Creative.