Children born premature, who have special needs or birth defects may have their needs best met with a neonatologist. Your infant is in good hands at our Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), at the Avera Children’s Hospital designed especially for babies who were born at less than 32 weeks’ gestation or have special medical needs.
In addition to benefiting from on-site neonatal experts, you gain immediate access to off-site pediatric intensivists and neonatologists through telemedicine technology that helps provide the fastest possible care.
Avera Children’s Hospital includes the region and city’s only specialized child and adolescent units at the Avera Behavioral Health Hospital. Children (ages 5-12) and adolescents (ages 13-17) receive inpatient treatment within a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment. There, they have a safe space to share their problems and learn healthy coping skills.
Full spectrum, 24/7 pediatric hospital medicine and critical care are available to diagnose, treat and manage health conditions with services like:
- Advanced life support
- Breastfeeding support
- Pediatric critical care
- Pediatric procedural sedation services
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Newborn medicine
