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The Newborn Special Care Unit serves as the Regional Neonatal Center for Southern Connecticut. Every year, thousands of live birth occur at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and, every day, newborns are admitted to the NBSCU. Indeed, every year over 800 newborns are admitted long term to the Newborn Special Care Unit.

Infants are transported from other hospitals throughout our region for specialized services such as surgery, cardiology, inhaled nitric oxide and ECMO. The average daily census in the NBSCU is 91% occupancy, making this the largest clinical unit in the Children's Hospital. We care for the tiniest and most vulnerable children with:

Developmental follow-up evaluation, in collaboration with the Yale Child Study Center, is available to all infants from the Newborn Special Care Unit who weighed 1250 g or less at birth. Other infants are referred on an elective basis.