Special Care Nursery at Watsonville Community Hospital

Location Watsonville Community Hospital 75 Nielson Street Watsonville, CA 95076

Phone: (831) 761-5663  Fax: (831) 763-6438

Services Overview

The Special Care Nursery at Watsonville Community Hospital is a 10-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.

Associated Faculty

• Magdy Ismail, MD
• Antonios Issa, MD
• Edward McNamara, MD - Medical Director