Our Division specialists will take care of your baby as long as necessary—from two or three days to several months.
Because we understand what a difficult time this can be, we work closely with you and your family members to ease the stress and address your concerns. Our entire team other specialists all work toward the same goal—to send you home with your baby as healthy as possible.
Emotional support
When you’re at Rainbow, you will receive help from our mental health professionals who support the emotional needs and challenges of families coping with a low birth weight baby or sick infant who requires a long hospital stay.
The Transitional Care Unit
Babies who require a longer stay in the hospital “graduate” from the NICU and transition into a home-like setting called the Neonatal Transitional Care Unit.
In this unit, you can stay with your baby much of the time, actively participate in caring for him, and get ready for life at home. Our staff know that parents have many questions have about caring for babies at home after a NICU stay, and we provide practical information and practice to help alleviate any fears.
Rainbow’s Level III Transitional Care Unit is one of the first such programs in the country and serves as a national model. The concept has substantially decreased readmissions to the hospital.
Going home
After your baby is discharged, we are available to you any time you have questions or concerns.
Rainbow offers a “Preemie Follow-Up Clinic,” which is respected as one of the best follow-up programs in the country for children who have been born prematurely.
Part of the Follow-up Clinic’s work is to track the outcomes and successes of premature infants to gain knowledge that will benefit others. Rainbow researcher Maureen Hack, MD, was the first to track and publish information on the development of severely premature infants into adulthood. The results of this tracking enable neonatologists around the world to provide more effective care to preemies as they grow.