Neonatal Transport
304-598-4140 When arranging for patient transport via the neonatal Transport Team of WVU Children's Hospital, please have this information available:
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West Virginia University Children’s Hospital maintains a highly skilled, specially trained neonatal transport team.
The neonatal transport team performs inter-hospital transports, moving critically ill newborn infants from the referring hospital to WVU Children’s Hospital in Morgantown.
Since its inception in 1979, the neonatal team has transported more than 5,000 newborn patients. These newborn infants may have problems such as:
- prematurity
- respiratory distress
- seizures
- cardiac abnormalities
- complex medical or surgical problems
Our team is made up of neonatal nurse practitioners, transport nurses, and respiratory therapists who are trained extensively in the needs of sick newborn infants. We can administer care from the most basic to highly advanced newborn intensive care.
With specialized training and equipment designed specifically for newborn infants, members of our team can immediately mobilize and help coordinate your referral from beginning to end.
Our neonatal transport team nurses have experience in newborn intensive care as well as extensive training and experience in newborn transport, and they are all certified in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program and the STABLE program.
Our transport team, which has existed for more than 25 years, is proficient in both ground and air transport. We are the only neonatal transport team in the north central region of West Virginia.