Taking a baby home after a long Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) hospitalization can be overwhelming for parents. For some of our high-risk infants, our NICU outpatient clinics continue to provide a safe and nurturing environment where our NICU graduates can continue to grow healthier.
NICU Outpatient Clinics at Kapiolani
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children offers two specialty clinics for neonatal outpatient care:
We help aid the transition from hospital to home, and partner with primary care physicians in the community and neighbor islands. Our goals are to support the special needs of NICU graduates for growth, nutrition, feeding skills and development.
Our team
Our multidisciplinary team at Kapiolani offers comprehensive family-centered follow-up care and support services.
The team at our NICU outpatient clinics consists of:
- Neonatologists
- Neurodevelopmental pediatricians
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (Neonatal) Fellows
- Nurse practitioners (NPs)
- Pediatric nurses
- Dietitians
- Developmental/Rehabilitation services: occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy
- Clinical care coordinators and case managers
- Medical assistants (MAs)
NICU Medical Follow-Up Clinic
The NICU Medical Follow-Up Clinic helps manage ongoing medical issues babies may have, including feeding, growth, follow-up labs and imaging, and early developmental screening. Babies discharged with medical devices such as home oxygen and feeding tubes will also be seen at this clinic.
When your baby no longer needs our NICU services, care will be transitioned completely to your primary care physician and/or the appropriate long-term pediatric subspecialty care teams.
Neonatologists at this clinic also provide outpatient consultation for infants in Hawaii with complex medical histories who were discharged from other NICUs across the state and on the mainland.
Prenatal consultations and palliative care consultations for expectant mothers with pregnancy complications that may require a NICU admission or advanced care after birth are also performed.
NICU Neurodevelopment Clinic
The NICU Neurodevelopment Clinic monitors milestones of high-risk infants between 4 months and 2 years of age by providing serial developmental assessments and referrals to early intervention services, rehabilitation services and neurodevelopmental specialists as needed.
Contact the NICU Neurodevelopment Clinic, RN Phone: 808-983-8500, option 2
This service is available at: Kapiolani