Organization - Neonatology Service

The main objective of the Neonatology Department is to offer advanced, predictive and preventive care that is participatory—promoting parental empowerment—and individualized, i.e. focused on the newborn and their family. It cares for more than 3,000 newborns each year, with more than 500 admissions, of which more than 100 are extremely premature babies.

The Department is governed by the following values:

• Excellence in care
• Scientific rigour
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Respect in the workplace
• Teamwork
• Cooperation between care levels
• Focus on continuous quality improvement
• Commitment to sustainability

The Department works in coordination with the BCNatal Maternal-Foetal Medicine Department, making it a national benchmark in neonatal diseases, especially prematurity. In addition, there is a strategic alliance with the Neonatology Department and the Critical Care Department at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona, which allows us to offer comprehensive, multidisciplinary care to sick newborns, as well as continuous follow-up during childhood.

The Department carries out its activities in the following areas of care:

• Neonatal Unit (1st floor): intensive care (13 beds) and intermediate care (14 beds) for premature or sick newborns
• Obstetrics Wards (2nd and 3rd floors): postnatal care for healthy newborns
• Delivery rooms and operating theatres (ground floor): assistance with intrauterine-extrauterine transition and resuscitation of newborns in the delivery room
• Maternal-foetal medicine outpatient clinics – Ultrasound scans (ground floor): Prenatal counselling (in conjunction with the maternal-foetal medicine team) in high-risk pregnancies or when foetal abnormalities are detected
• Home care after early discharge of premature or sick newborns
• Outpatient Neonatology Consultations (ground floor): follow-up of high-risk newborns, check-ups and screening of healthy newborns

The main specialties of the Neonatology Department are:

• Prematurity
• Intrauterine-extrauterine transition and resuscitation of newborns in the delivery room
• Respiratory and mechanical ventilation
• Neonatal nutrition and breastfeeding
• Neonatal endocrinology
• Infectious diseases and infection control
• Neonatal neurology and neurodevelopment
• Care focused on neurodevelopment and the family
• Perinatology
• Perinatal palliative care
• Home care
• Neonatal screening
• Environmental health and prenatal exposure to substances of abuse
• Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
• The Department has launched healthcare innovation and research activities: cameras in the Department's incubators, development of projects related to app design, 3D printing and virtual reality.
• Outpatient consultations in maternal-foetal medicine – Ultrasound scans (ground floor): Prenatal counselling (in conjunction with the maternal-foetal medicine team) in high-risk pregnancies or when foetal abnormalities are detected.
• Home care after early discharge of premature or sick newborns.
• Neonatology outpatient consultations (ground floor): monitoring of high-risk newborns, check-ups and screening of healthy newborns.

The main specialties of the Neonatology Department are:

• Prematurity
• Intrauterine-extrauterine transition and resuscitation of newborns in the delivery room
• Respiratory and mechanical ventilation
• Neonatal nutrition and breastfeeding
• Neonatal endocrinology
• Infectious diseases and infection control
• Neonatal neurology and neurodevelopment
• Care focused on neurodevelopment and the family
• Perinatology
• Perinatal palliative care
• Home care
• Neonatal screening
• Environmental health and prenatal exposure to substances of abuse
• Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder

The Department has launched healthcare innovation and research activities: cameras in the Department's incubators, development of projects related to app design, 3D printing and virtual reality.