Neonatal Care / NICU

Overland Park Regional Medical Center offers a Level IIIb Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Advanced equipment supports newborns with respiratory difficulties or other high-risk complications. Neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nurses, respiratory therapists, lactation consultants and a social worker make up the neonatal team.

The obstetricians and neonatologists at Overland Park Regional Medical Center can identify and diagnose birth defects and infant conditions such as:

The NICU is staffed by neonatal nurse practitioners around the clock. A neonatal nurse practitioner and/or a neonatologist attend all high-risk deliveries, and provide support to physicians in the newborn nursery.