The Rutgers Health Intensive Care Nursery Service operates at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital (BMSCH) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick, NJ. The service responds promptly to transfer requests for newborns from other health care facilities. It also will attend high-risk deliveries upon request.

The service includes neonatologists, specially trained nurses, neonatal respiratory therapists, and a clinical psychologist. The service’s transport team includes a mobile intensive care unit (ICU) with ventilators and a staff of a neonatal fellow, experienced ICU nurse, and neonatal respiratory therapist.

Once a newborn arrives at the BMSCH at RWJUH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a 19,000-square-foot facility with leading-edge equipment, referring physicians and hospitalized mothers are given frequent updates on the condition of their baby. Parents may visit the NICU 24 hours per day/7 days per week. The NICU has breastfeeding rooms and overnight rooms for families. 

NICU staff members are experts in using high-frequency jet and oscillatory ventilation, machine-aided techniques shown to be effective on infants with underdeveloped lungs. To minimize family disruption, babies receive transport back to the referring nursery as soon as the infant’s condition permits.

The service also performs many noninvasive cardiac and neurologic techniques on infants. Its medical professionals work with many Rutgers Health pediatric subspecialists to serve the NICU population in the following capacities:

• Anesthesia
• Cardiology
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Otorhinolaryngology
• Pathology
• Radiology
• Surgery
• Urology

We also provide special services for congenital anomalies and offer a multidisciplinary follow-up program.

Physicians with the service are on the faculty of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a part of Rutgers University, one of the top research institutions in America. Our doctors are involved in research and in teaching about all aspects of pediatric medicine and NICU care. Each brings leading-edge knowledge from the classroom to the exam room.

If you have a diagnosis that indicates you may experience a high-risk pregnancy or delivery, or are the parent of an infant who may be experiencing complications due to a high-risk delivery, the Rutgers Health Intensive Care Nursery Service can provide the care mothers and their babies need.