Neonatal Transport Program

The Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach neonatal transport program makes transferring a neonatal intensive care patient easy for referring hospitals and physicians. The Miller Children’s multi-disciplinary neonatal intensive care team coordinates all aspects of the transfer—they secure the ambulance, arrive with the neonatal transport team and transport the critically ill baby to Miller Children’s level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the largest in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.

Checklist for the Referring Hospital

The referring hospital can help expedite the transfer-of-care process, by having the following documents ready for the Miller Children’s neonatal transport team.

Two copies of the face sheet
Copy of maternal record, including prenatal labs and H&P
Copy of delivery record
Copy of infant’s chart:
Admission record
Transfer/discharge summary
Medication record, including orders and administration history
Lab results
Ultrasound/X-ray films/CD
Flowsheet
California Perinatal Transport form (CPeTs)

Why Request a Neonatal Transport to Miller Children’s Hospital?

• 24/7 in-house board-certified/eligible pediatric hospitalist, intensivists and neonatologists
• Access to board-certified pediatric sub-specialists, covering more than 30 different pediatric specialties
• 69-bed level III NICU, offering specialized care for very low birth weight and critically ill infants
• Miller Children’s NICU has some of the highest risk adjusted survival rates
• The neonatal intensive care unit at Miller Children’s is one of the largest in California, treating more high-risk, premature infants than any other hospital in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties
• Miller Children’s is the only hospital in California to have the March of Dimes® NICU Family Support Program
• Specialized programs for critically ill and premature babies and their families:
  - High-risk infant follow-up program
  - Comprehensive surgical care, with board-certified pediatric surgical sub-specialists
  - Child Life program/sibling support
  - Pain management program
  - Complete pediatric sub-specialty care
  - California Children’s Services (CCS) provider
  - Supportive/palliative care for babies
  - Inpatient and outpatient breastfeeding support programs
  - Parent education support program
  - Free educational programs for nurses and physicians

Request a Neonatal Transport rolodex card.

Please take a moment to complete our Neonatal Transport Program Survey, post neonatal transport. Please assist Miller Children’s in improving the NICU transport program by answering the following questions.