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Programs & Services
 

Special Care Nursery at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital

 
Location
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
450 E. Romie Lane
Salinas, CA 93901 
Phone: (831) 755-0720 
Fax: (831) 753-6298 

 

Services Overview

The Special Care Nursery at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital is an eight-bed intermediate intensive care nursery under the medical direction of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH).

The Special Care Nursery provides ongoing care for infants with:
  • Respiratory disease requiring hood or nasal cannula
  • Special metabolic needs, including hypoglycemia 
  • Suspected or confirmed sepsis 
  • Hyperbilirubinemia requiring either phototherapy and/or exchange transfusion
The Special Care Nursery provides nutritional consultations and therapies (e.g. total parenteral nutrition) and resuscitation and stabilization of infants in preparation for transport to Level III unit.

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