UW Hospital plans to open a neonatal intensive care unit next year within American Family Children?s Hospital. The surgical NICU, to have up to 14 beds, will care for infants after they have “highly complex surgeries or other advanced procedures,” Lisa Brunette, a hospital spokeswoman, said in a prepared statement. The unit could open by January, said Dr. Julie Kessel, a UW Health neonatologist who is clinical director of Meriter Hospital?s NICU.
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