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Why
Choose Us?
 Schneider
Children's Hospital and its neonatal services have been recognized
as a leading center for child health care in the country. Besides
caring for 10% of New York State's newborns within North Shore
- Long Island Jewish Health Care System hospitals, we receive
referrals from the entire New York City metropolitan area, Long
Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and beyond. We also receive "gift
of life" patients from throughout the world. Our multidisciplinary
health care team has introduced an evidence-based framework to
optimize performance as we strive to deliver the safest and highest
quality care. This Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality program, called TeamSTEPPS™,
utilizes the patient care team skills of leadership, situational
monitoring, mutual support and communication to enhance our knowledge,
positive attitude and the safe performance of our mission.
Many of our special neonatal programs are unique to our area.
These include: an advanced transport system (including high frequency
ventilator transport) for bringing babies to our two major centers,
a lung rescue and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
(ECMO) program for the most extremely severe lung disorders, extensive
cardiology and cardiovascular surgery services, a brain cooling
program to prevent certain types of cerebral palsy, and a center
for neonatal nutrition which plays an
important role in a baby's long-term outcome, including intelligence,
as well. We take pride in being at the cutting edge of new therapy
for our patients and have pediatric subspecialists available in
every field at Schneider Children's Hospital campuses.
Our units are staffed with family support professionals from
our social service departments, child life professionals, and
the Tender Loving
Care Foundation (a family support and philanthropic organization
led by parents of our NICU graduates). The TLC Foundation has
been a major contributor to specialized neonatal equipment purchases
and funds our annual visiting professor.
The Alice T. Haviland Foundation is a philanthropic organization
that hosts an annual golf outing to raise funds for specialized
equipment for our unit. It was founded by the family of one of
our "lung rescue" patients. ATHfoundation@optonline.net
A Ronald McDonald House and other stay-over facilities for parents
are immediately adjacent to Schneider Children's Hospital.
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