Doylestown Hospital’s Special Care Nursery is a lifeline for premature babies and those born with special medical needs. Since it opened in 1994, the Special Care Nursery has provided advanced medical treatment and TLC to hundreds of newborns who were born too early (between 30-35 weeks gestation), too small, or with a problem that required constant monitoring.

Our SCN is a Level 2 facility; staffed round the clock by neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners. Now, Doylestown Hospital is pleased to announce a new affiliation with neonatologists from the premier pediatric specialty hospital in the Delaware Valley – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Beginning February 1, 2007, Dr. Carrie Hufnal- Miller of CHOP Newborn Care at Pennsylvania Hospital will assume her new role as Director of Neonatology for Doylestown Hospital.

Dr. Miller, along with several colleagues from her practice, will provide coverage around the clock as we move to expand neonatal services and eventually provide care for newborns born even earlier than 30 weeks, or with more intense medical issues. The new partnership will also expedite the transfer of infants with surgical needs to Children’s Hospital or to the Level 3 NICU at Pennsylvania Hospital for non-surgical intensive care. And because of this new affiliation, we will also be able to “back transfer” infants from Philadelphia hospitals to Doylestown, where they will continue to receive care from the same team of neonatologists.