St. Mary’s newly renovated, state-of-the-art NICU features private bays, a private lactation room, and a family sleeping room, all designed to meet the needs of families with babies requiring special care – such as those born preterm, critically ill babies, and those with congenital conditions requiring specialized treatment. St. Mary is the only hospital delivering babies in Lower Bucks County. About 2400 babies are born annually at St. Mary and about 5.5% of those infants require critical care in the NICU. Watch our OB/Gyn Story Caring for the At-Risk Infant Tiniest patients receive the most specialized treatment “Is my baby okay?” That is a question every mother asks in the delivery room. When the answer is no, a happy experience turns to dread. Then comes the rush of questions; does St. Mary Medical Center have the specialized technology to care for my baby? Is the staff trained for infant care? How will I be able to care for my infant? Is there help for me and my family? Fortunately for those parents, the answers to those questions are yes, yes, yes, and yes. St. Mary Medical Center is fully prepared to care for those at-risk infants, especially now with its newly expanded neonatal unit. For more than twenty-five years, St. Mary Medical Center has been addressing the needs of its tiniest patients who require specialized treatment. The neonatal unit serves newborns who have congenital conditions, are preterm, or are critically ill. The unit is staffed by expert nurses such as Sue Hawkins and Andrea Bernardo who have a combined number of 54 years of nursing experience between...
