Caring for Newborns in the Community
Newborns needing advanced care
Children’s Mercy takes care of newborns in need of intensive care across the Kansas City metropolitan area through our METRO program. We partner with area hospitals by staffing their NICU with pediatric experts in newborn care from Children’s Mercy. When a baby is born at one of these hospitals and needs advanced care, but does not require a Level IV NICU, Children’s Mercy neonatologists work alongside providers at the partner hospital, seeing every baby every day. Children’s Mercy nurse practitioners are also in the delivery room for babies delivered by C-section with known high-risk needs.
Area partnerships include:
Well Baby Clinic
While some pediatricians may come to the hospital to see a newborn right after birth, it is not always the standard practice. At Liberty Hospital, University Health-Truman Medical Center, and Advent Health Shawnee Mission, our Well Baby Clinic currently sees infants whose pediatricians do not come to the hospital, as well as infants whose parents haven’t decided what pediatrician they are planning to follow up with by the time the infant is born.
Our Well Baby Clinic team is able to provide all initial newborn care needed. When the babies are ready to be discharged from the hospital, our team will help facilitate moving their care to one of the pediatric clinics around the Kansas City regional area or close to their future home.