Parkland Memorial Hospital          Children’s Medical Center of Dallas

Parkland Memorial Hospital - ~ 16,000 deliveries per year, predominantly inborn population

• Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery: 72 beds - ~ 1500 admissions yearly
  • Intensive Care: 24 beds - ~ 500 admissions yearly
  • Intermediate Care: 46 beds
  • Surgical Intensive Care: 6 beds
  • Continuing Care: 25 beds (staffed by PNP's)

• Delivery Room:  Myra Wyckoff, M.D., an internationally acclaimed physician in neonatal resuscitation research, directs a very unique resuscitation rotation, which includes exposure to a computerized patient simulator, participation in resuscitation research, review of the literature, and attendance at high-risk deliveries.

• Term/Near-term Newborn Nursery, which admits all neonates >2100gm birth weight and >34 wks gestational age Newborn nursery

Children’s Medical Center Dallas, a tertiary referral center for North Texas, which encompasses >100,000 births

• Low-Birth-Weight Follow-Up Clinic: staffed by 2 Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1 Physician Assistant, 1 Follow-Up Physician, providing primary care to 90% of extremely low birth weight infants born at Parkland up to 3 years as needed.
  
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit referral unit to which infants are transferred by the Children’s Neonatal Transport Team via land and air transport from North Texas and neighboring States.  
  • Opened March 2007, staffed by neonatologists and NNPs
  • 16 beds since January 2008
  • New 36-bed unit with ECMO will open in new building in 2009
    
• Cardiovascular Unit which is staffed by the intensive care attendings, pediatric nurse practitioners and fellows in intensive care pediatrics. This unit has 325 pump cases per year and another 150 non-pump cases per year. Fellows in neonatal-perinatal medicine are exposed to pre- and postoperative care. 
  • Exposure to cardiac surgery (~ 25 infants per rotation)

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