Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center
in Laguna Hills
For over twenty years the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at The Women’s Hospital at Saddleback Memorial in Laguna Hills has been caring for premature and medically fragile infants. We hope you never need us, but should the need arise we are well-equipped to care for infants requiring immediate, advanced care.
Every newborn is special to us. But sometimes babies arrive a little too early or have needs that require extra attention. The NICU at The Women’s Hospital provides a full complement of board certified neonatologists, pediatric subspecialists, experienced nurses, respiratory therapists, social workers and pediatricians. We provide a full range of specialized, family-centered services–intensive, intermediate and continuing care–for premature and medically fragile newborns.
Our Level III NICU features round-the-clock, on-site neonatalogists, specialized nurses and respiratory therapists as well as:
- Lactation Support
- Skin-to-Skin Care
- Medical Social Work coverage
- Pediatric Physician Subspecialty Coverage
- Perinatology and Anesthesiology Coverage
- Neonatal Case Management & Discharge Planning
- Interpreter Services
Visiting Hours:
Visitor policies ensure the safety of NICU patients while maintaining infection control measures.- Visiting hours are generally 11:00 AM to 6:30 PM and 7:45 PM to 6:30 AM.
- On occasion, the NICU may be temporarily closed to visitors during surgical procedures.
- Parents may allow other adult visitors (18 years and older) to visit their infant providing one parent remains at the infant’s bedside.
- Parents and visitors with suspected infectious diseases are asked to postpone contact with infants in the NICU.
- Siblings, ages three years and older, may visit once during the first 24 hours of the infant’s hospitalization and on Saturdays and Sundays thereafter. Siblings must be in good health.
- A maximum of two visitors will be allowed at the infant’s bedside at any one time.
