How many babies are admitted to your nursery?
449 babies from 7 states have been cared for thus far in the year 2002.

How many weeks gestation are the babies that are admitted to your nursery?
Babies admitted to NICU are those who are born near full term but are very sick or they are premature infants - some as much as 3 months early or 24 weeks gestation..

How many multiple births are admitted to your nursery?
In 2002 we had 36 sets of twins, 3 sets of triplets and 1 set of Quadruplets.

How many babies survive?
The over all survival rate of the University of Utah Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit is 98%.

What are the smallest babies that area admitted to your nursery?
In 2002 we had four newborns who weighed less than one pound went home and are doing well.

How many small babies are admitted to your nursery?
In 2002 there were 132 newborns in the unit that weighed 3 ½ pounds or less.

How long do babies stay in the nursery?
The infants may be in the NICU for just a day or two or for months.

When did the Newborn ICU start?
Dr. August Jung of University Hospital established the first newborn intensive care unit in the Intermountain West 34 year ago. In those early days, he outfitted his station wagon so he could pick up a sick baby and transport it to the unit. His staff sold doughnuts in the hospital to buy the first infant heart-rate monitor.

How do babies get to your nursery?
Now babies not only arrive by ambulance from the Wasatch front, they are flown in by University Hospital's 3 helicopters and 2 fixed wing aircraft from as far away as the Canadian border. Most babies are born in our hospital. The mothers are transported by the OB AIRMED team.

How are babies admitted to the Newborn ICU?
When the new labor and delivery unit was built 3 years ago, a window was built between the delivery room and the NICU so that a baby in distress can be passed right through the window immediately into the high-tech NICU.