The Center for Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

The Center for Fetal and Neonatal Medicine is one of the county's most innovative models for the care and treatment of the most complex medical and surgical maternal-fetal and neonatal problems. It includes the:

• Division of Newborn and Infant Critical Care
• Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit (NICCU)
• Institute for Maternal-Fetal Health (IMFH)
• Neonatal Intensive Care Units at:
  • LAC+USC Medical Center
  • Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center 
  • Good Samaritan Hospital

The Center for Fetal and Neonatal Medicine is especially ground-breaking in that it is one of the few Centers in the country to treat the fetus as a patient by offering comprehensive prenatal care and information.  The all-inclusive care offered by the Institute for Maternal-Fetal Health (IMFH) enhances health outcomes for expectant mothers with high-risk pregnancies and their unborn children.  This program identifies and treats medical problems in children while they are still in the womb using innovative diagnostic and surgical techniques.

Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit (NICCU)

The Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit admits critically ill infants up to 52 weeks who require highly specialized medical and nursing care.  Whereas many community hospitals offer a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit capable of caring for premature infants, the most critically ill infants must be treated at Childrens Hospital and typically require multiple complex surgeries or specialized services that only Childrens Hospital can provide. 

Institute for Maternal-Fetal Health (IMFH)

At the IMFH, faculty from the USC Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine provide a full scope of diagnostic and treatment services to fetuses and mothers with high-risk pregnancies in close collaboration with the Divisions of Cardiology and Medical Genetics, and several other subspecialty programs, at Childrens Hospital, and with the Divisions within the Department of Surgery at Childrens Hospital.  More than 20 pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty programs and support services are involved in the provision of state-of-the art, compassionate and coordinated care along the continuum of prenatal, perinatal and postnatal medicine, serving the most complex and critically ill fetuses and neonates in the Los Angeles region, the Southwestern United States and beyond.