Services
Provide quality, compassionate, and family centered Neonatal Care (Level III) to newborns greater than 27 weeks of gestation. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provides stabilization and pre-transfer care to infants born less than 27 weeks gestation and those who require a higher level of care.
Contact Us | Hours |
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Main: (254) 553-2511 FAX: (254) 288-8995 |
24 hours per day / 7 days per week |
Address | |
4th Floor Bldg. 36065, Sante Fe Ave Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Fort Hood, Texas 76544 |
The 12-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a special area of the Maternal Child Health Section in Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center where doctors and nurses provide around-the-clock care to criticall ill premature and term newborns. In the NICU, babies receive more intensive attention than is possible in a regular newborn nursery. The NICU staff members have special training in their fields.
Parents may visit their infant 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, parents will be asked to leave the NICU during the following:
- Nursing change of shifts: 6:45 a.m. – 7:15 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
- Crisis or Emergency situations
Parents must show proper wristband identification or ID card prior to visiting their infant:
- Only two visitors per infant are allowed at any time
- Siblings may visit if they are accompanied by a parent with a copy of their up to date immunization record.
- No siblings are permitted to visit if he/she has an upper respiratory infection, temperature, has been exposed to a communicable disease, or has not had chicken pox.
- Grandparents may visit, at anytime, if accompanied by one of the parents
- The mother may designate one "significant other" if the father is unavailable or not involved. However, the “significant other” is not allowed to bring visitors into the NICU.
- No children under 12 years of age are allowed on the unit from 1 OCT – 1 APR (RSV Season).
The NICU policies and procedures are in compliance with the following regulatory guidance:
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
page last modified on: 9/28/2016