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Neonatology ranks sixth in nation by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023-24 Best Children's Hospitals survey. For the 5th year in a row, we have ranked as one of the top 10 neonatology programs in the country. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is ranked as the #1 children's hospital in Northern California.
Expanding telemedicine support in the NICU
We have officially launched TeleNeo at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. In this program, Stanford Children’s attending NICU physicians will now be able to provide remote consultations 24/7 with select hospitals via a telehealth device. Our team has partnered with Teladoc® using their Lite 4 with Boom device, which allows physicians to activate a video livestream of a patient and communicate directly with the care team during emergent events. The program may decrease the need to transport sick newborns long distances to receive high-level care.
Under the leadership of Ritu Chitkara, MD, the TeleNeo team brought this program to fruition, united by the goal of ensuring all babies have access to high-level expertise in the delivery room and newborn nursery. “Ideally, we want to use this program to provide extraordinary care by optimizing the quality and safety of newborn resuscitation and evaluation in our community,” Dr. Chitkara says.
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Dr. Jeff Gould named Landmark Award recipient by the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine
The award recognizes Dr. Gould's dedication to quality improvement and health services research as Co-Founder of both the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. The organizations have served as models for similar perinatal quality collaboratives in the U.S.
From Stanford Medicine News Center
– News CenterNewborn care advocate Alistair Philip dies at 86
Alistair Philip, professor emeritus of pediatrics, pioneered a test to reduce antibiotic use in newborns, streamlined nursery care at several hospitals and devoted his life to educating others in his field.
– ScopeHow California is taking on inequity for Black patients during pregnancy, childbirth
Black women are three to four times as likely as their white peers to experience life-threatening pregnancy complications or die giving birth