Learning your infant was born with or is at risk for neurologic disease or brain injury is scary. The Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is here to provide the early and expert care your baby needs. Ours is one of only a few programs in the nation offering the highly specialized care these babies need.

Here, your baby has access to the best:

• Specialized, experienced care: At the Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program, your child's team includes doctors, nurses and other experts in caring for children with neurologic conditions from before birth through long-term follow-up. We provide ongoing care into adulthood.
• A commitment to advancing care options: Our program is at the forefront of improving care and treatment options for your child and all infants with neurologic disease or brain injury. We do this through research, state-of-the-art monitoring and collaboration with many specialists. In collaboration with the Fetal Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity Program and the Neonatal Research Network, we are researching ways to protect fetal brain development, prevent brain injury before birth and improve the developmental outcomes of babies who sustain brain injury.
• Special delivery options: Babies who are prenatally diagnosed with neurologic problems often need specialized care before, during and after birth. We are able to offer this care, when needed, from obstetric care and advanced prenatal imaging to fetal surgery and the opportunity to deliver in CHOP’s Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit (SDU). This is the world’s first birth facility in a pediatric hospital. It was created specifically for healthy mothers carrying babies with known birth defects.
  Delivering in the SDU keeps a mother close as her baby receives coordinated, state-of-the-art treatment in the Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit. Having this comprehensive care in one location enhances the well-being of babies born with complex congenital conditions.
• Coordinated care and follow-up into adulthood: At CHOP, a variety of specialty programs are available to your child from before birth through adulthood. Team members from these various programs will work together with your child’s Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program team. To ensure a seamless transition to outpatient care, we partner with referring physicians and follow-up programs dedicated to the long-term management of children with neonatal brain injury, stroke, epilepsy and other neurologic disorders, and another studying the neurological development of children with congenital heart disease.