Nemours opens Institute for Maternal Fetal Health, a fetal care center – Delawareonline.com

Nemours Children’s Hospital is expanding its maternal fetal health offerings with a new fetal care center.  
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on April 7 at Nemours’ Rockland campus to celebrate the new addition, which expands the hospital’s existing Maternal and Fetal Health Program under the Institute for Maternal Fetal Health, launched in December.
Other program offerings will include a new Advanced Delivery Unit, Psychosocial Support Program and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit extension, set to complete later this year. 
The Institute for Maternal Fetal Health includes Delaware’s first surgical fetal care center, according to Nemours, providing a combination of prenatal, fetal and neonatal services in one space. It emphasizes the importance of prenatal diagnosis and therapy, with aims to expand Nemours’ utero diagnostic and surgical interventions. 
The facility will open to patients on April 13.  
Nemours President and CEO R. Lawrence Moss said the institute is designed to holistically support the mental and physical health of patients as serious illnesses are navigated.  
The expansion focuses on keeping mothers and babies close together as they receive care, with the Level IV NICU and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit located within 100 feet of where mothers receive care. Patients can receive prenatal diagnoses, imaging, fetal treatments while pregnant, deliver their babies and get specialized newborn care after birth – all without changing facilities.  
The institute features a 12-bed labor and delivery unit that includes three fetal operating rooms. It is equipped to care for patients during all stages of pregnancy.
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“This is a new paradigm of care that we brought to the Delaware Valley,” said Dr. Katherine Deans, senior vice president and enterprise surgeon-in-chief at Nemours. “We know that the best outcomes for a child and their health are if we are able to diagnose it early and treat it early with a multidisciplinary team.” 
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