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Our Lady of the Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital NICU

Having a baby is an exciting experience. Sometimes, baby comes sooner than expected. Health issues may arise at birth or soon after. The experienced, skilled and dedicated team at Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital is ready to assist you with cutting-edge technology and customer service advancements to enhance your overall patient care and experience.

Specialized programs and services to support you include:

  • Acadiana’s only Level III Surgical NICU
  • 19 private family suites, with two to accommodate twins.
  • Only hospital in the region to provide exclusive human milk diet to very low birthweight infants
  • A variety of respiratory support, including high-frequency ventilation and inhaled nitric oxide in the NICU
  • Neonatologists and other pediatric specialists, including but not limited to, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Hematology/Oncology, Neurosurgery and more
  • The area’s most experienced Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Transport Team able to safely “bring the NICU to the baby”
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4600 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy., Lafayette LA 70508

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FMOL Health | Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s and Children’s Hospital Expands NICU with Private Family Suites as Part of Advancing Acadiana Initiative

As part of its $100 million Advancing Acadiana strategic investment, FMOL Health | Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital has expanded its Level III Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to include 19 private family suites, including two designed for twins. This project increases NICU capacity to 60 beds to care for the region’s tiniest patients.

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Inside Our New NICU

Amy Zeringue, MD, board-certified neonatologist and NICU director, and Alesha Alford, DNP, RNC-OB, vice president of women’s and children’s services, share how the NICU expansion at FMOL Health | Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital is transforming care for babies and families across Acadiana. With private NICU family suites and a more supportive, family-centered environment, parents can stay close to their babies, be part of the care team and focus on what matters most, helping their child grow stronger.

Safe and Swift Transportation

The NICU Transport Team at Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital is a highly skilled group of medical professionals with expertise in the care of critically ill newborns and neonatal transport. Under the direction of Board Certified neonatologists, the NICU Transport Team transports newborns via ambulance or helicopter to our hospital to receive the specialized care they need. Using a dedicated neonatal transport unit, the transport team is able to safely “bring the NICU to the baby.”

The NICU Transport Team provides:

Our specially designed and equipped transport incubator includes a high-frequency ventilator and a transport cooling blanket, making Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital among the first hospitals in the state to utilize this life-saving technology in the transport of a patient.

Moms whose infants are transported to Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital are placed under the care of the OB Hospitalists so they may recover in the same facility as their newborns.

Learn more about NICUs across our health system

 

Stay connected with your baby in real-time, any time. 

The NICU camera system provides the ability for parents who do not live in the immediate Lafayette area to see their baby in real time, any time. Parents can share the secure online portal log-in credentials with family and other loved ones, who they wish to receive access. Cameras do not transmit sound or record video. Parents can login to their Angel Eyes Camera System account on the Angel Eyes Camera System website through a secure internet connection. The video stream is only interrupted when the nurse or physician is caring for the baby.

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