Vidant Medical Center is an 800 bed hospital that serves as the regional referral center for the 29 counties of eastern North Carolina.  Contained within the hospital is a 122 bed Children's Hospital, which houses a 50-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 16-bed intermediate care nursery, and a high-risk obstetrical delivery service.

The NICU is staffed by board-certified Neonatologists, Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Neonatal Fellows, Pediatric and Family Medicine Residents, staff nurses, a neonatal nutritionist, family service counselors, discharge planners and a doctoral pharmacist.  We moved into the new state of the art NICU in January, 2005.  Images of the NICU can be found here or through the link to the left.

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