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All of us use the First Hill Neonatal Intensive Care doctors to take care of our babies that
need a higher level of care. Not all hospitals for example would have a neonatal intensive
care unit and most people do not need to be delivered in a hospital that has that ability.
So, what you look for is a hospital that has access to that kind of service. A level 3
neonatal intensive care unit can take care of babies as premature as they come, so the
very smallest of babies with the most complications can be taken care of at a level 3. A level
2 NICU can take care of babies 32 weeks and above. If the baby is born earlier than that
they may need to be transferred to a NICU that can take care of them. A level 1 NICU
will take care of babies born 35 weeks and above and will stabilize a baby just in order
to get them off to a higher level NICU. One of the nice things is if you are at a Swedish
hospital and you do end up delivering more prematurely than the NICU at that hospital
there is a special way to transport those babies to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
that's appropriate for that baby. So patients that are hospitalized very early on may end
up being transferred to First Hill campus where they can be taken care of if their baby
is delivered prematurely.