Newborn Medicine, Community
Community Newborn Medicine Program
The Community Newborn Medicine program at Boston Children's Hospital cares for ill and recovering newborns in a family-centered, community setting. Our community-based Newborn Medicine faculty provide advanced newborn therapies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and in Special Care Nurseries (SCN) in several suburban medical centers that are affiliated with Children's. So even if you're far from Boston, you're still within reach of excellent care.
Who We Work With
We work with medical centers outside Boston to provide top medical care to the community at large. These centers include Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Boston Children's Physicians South in Weymouth. These institutions refer newborns to Boston Children's Hospital for specialized therapies and subspecialty services. We also offer an International Center for families residing outside of the United States, which facilitates the medical review of patient records and appointment scheduling and which provides assistance with customs and immigration, transportation, hotel and housing accommodations.
Conditions & Treatments
- Anencephaly
- Birth defects and congenital anomalies
- Bottle feeding
- Breastfeeding: Getting started
- Breastfeeding: Maternal nutrition
- Breastfeeding: Using a breast pump
- Colic
- Fetus and newborn blood circulation
- Flat or inverted nipples
- Growth milestones
- Hydrops fetalis
- Hypocalcemia
- Infant respiratory distress syndrome (hyaline membrane disease)
- Large for gestational age babies
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)
- Newborn birthweight and measurements
- Newborn eating problems
- Newborn physical examinations
- Newborn screening tests
- Newborn skull anatomy
- Newborn warning signs
- Normal vision
- Phimosis and paraphimosis
- Red Blood Cell Disorders
- Reye syndrome
- Teething
- Assessments for newborn babies
- Blocked tear duct (dacryostenosis)
- Breastfeeding: Benefits of mother's own milk
- Breastfeeding: Management
- Breastfeeding: Plugged milk ducts
- Circumcision
- Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
- Fever in a newborn
- Getting to know your baby
- Hemolytic disease of the newborn
- Hyperbilirubinemia and jaundice
- Infant nutrition
- Intraventricular hemorrhage
- Natal teeth
- Newborn Medicine
- Newborn crying
- Newborn growth
- Newborn reflexes
- Newborn senses
- Newborn special care
- Normal growth
- Nursing bottle caries
- Pyloric stenosis
- Respiratory Distress
- Small for gestational age
- Transient tachypnea of the newborn
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