Seattle Children’s Hospital to provide neonatal care at Harrison Medical Center

CHI Franciscan Health and Seattle Children’s Hospital announced that they are expanding their existing neonatology collaboration to include neonatal services at Harrison Medical Center-Silverdale.

SILVERDALE — CHI Franciscan Health and Seattle Children’s Hospital announced that they are expanding their existing neonatology collaboration to include neonatal services at Harrison Medical Center-Silverdale. The addition of 10 full-time, highly trained Seattle Children’s neonatal nurse practitioners to Harrison Medical Center’s Family Birth Center will bring specialized, round-the-clock care to higher-risk infants in the Kitsap Peninsula communities.

“This collaboration will help the excellent physicians and staff at Harrison to continue to provide care for higher-risk babies that need closer monitoring but do not require transfer to a more specialized neonatal intensive care unit,” said Ketul J. Patel, CEO of CHI Franciscan Health.

Christopher Traudt, M.D., the neonatology medical director at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and a Seattle Children’s neonatologist, will oversee the neonatal services at Harrison.

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Harrison Medical Center’s 10-bed Special Care Nursery, a Level II neonatal intensive care unit, cares for premature babies born at 34 weeks and weighing at least 4.5 to 5 pounds. Seattle Children’s NNPs will augment the level of services pediatricians and NNPs have been providing.

In 2015, nearly 2,000 babies were born at Harrison Medical Center, 10 percent of whom needed specialized care. This expansion will allow Harrison Medical Center to care for more infants identified as higher-risk in its NICU, giving Kitsap Peninsula families the ability to receive care closer to home.

 

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