The Holtzman Twins Special Care Nursery/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a state-of-the-art facility for fragile babies, adjacent to PeaceHealth Southwest’s Family Birth Center. Expansion is underway for the current unit to be expanded by eight neonatal intensive care beds, for a total of 28 beds.  The unit is designed to keep mom and baby close by offering private rooms, with sleeping accommodations so parents can be near their baby at all times.

With the expansion, PeaceHealth Southwest’s Family Birth Center becomes a Level III NICU, treating infants as young as 28 weeks. Infants in the Special Care Nursery/NICU are cared for by neonatologists from PeaceHealth Medical Group Neonatology Associates. Along with neonatal nurse practitioners who are in-house 24 hours a day, seven days a week, these fragile infants are supported by advanced imaging services and interpretation including CT, MRI and echocardiography.

The Holtzman Twins Special Care Nursery and the NICU expansion is made possible thanks to a generous donation from the David and Patricia Nierenberg family.

The NICU expansion will be complete in summer 2010. View images of the groundbreaking