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Having a newborn with urgent medical needs can be an overwhelming experience. Our neonatal specialists embrace collaboration to provide world-class, family-centered care and support for your baby.
When your baby is premature or critically ill, as a parent, you want to know they’re receiving the best, most compassionate care possible. At Pediatrix, our neonatologists, neonatal hospitalists and advanced practice providers are highly skilled and dedicated to providing the care your child needs. Our specialists are trained to handle complex and high-risk situations, including extreme prematurity, serious illness and congenital abnormalities.
Each family's situation is unique and every baby requires customized, compassionate, patient-centered neonatology care. Your baby will receive the attention and expertise they need to ensure the best possible outcome.
Through our partnerships with local hospitals, we collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of pediatric medical specialists, nursing, respiratory therapy and other rapid-response personnel, to ensure your sick or critically ill newborn baby receives the precise care they need, exactly when they need it.
Conditions we treat include:
Our neonatal specialists play many roles: diagnostician, teacher, counselor, consultant and primary care provider in the NICU.
Our goal is to help families understand their baby’s diagnosis and treatment options, then develop a care plan with your participation and input.
Following are some of the many benefits of care from Pediatrix:
Cherie Foster, M.D., a neonatologist at Pediatrix® Neonatology of Florida, discusses some of the reasons premature and full-term babies require neonatal intensive care and how neonatologists organize all of that care, from feeding and nutrition to cardiovascular and respiratory support.
Pediatrix® Neonatology of Florida neonatologist Cherie Foster, M.D., explains that while neonatologists are there to provide care to premature and ill newborns, they are also there to serve the family during what is usually the most difficult time in their life.
Pediatrix® Neonatology of Florida neonatologist Cherie Foster, M.D., explains that receiving pictures of past NICU patients as they grow and thrive and hearing from their families is a reminder of the immense good neonatologists are doing every day.
Cherie Foster, M.D., a neonatologist at Pediatrix® Neonatology of Florida, shares that the reasons she feels Pediatrix is a great place to work is because it is led by physicians; its primary focus is on excellent care of patients and their families; and its support for research, clinical quality outcomes, career development and wellness.
Cherie Foster, M.D., a neonatologist at Pediatrix® Neonatology of Florida, shares that the role of a neonatologist is not only to provide specialized care to premature and ill newborns, but to also show compassion and offer support to their families during an extremely stressful time.
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