NICU: 36 Level-3 beds and 20 Level-2 beds (largest facility in Canada)
Level 1: 7,000 total births/year

We have many different groups of patients that we take care of — the infant born unexpectedly preterm, the infant identified on antenatal ultrasound to have a problem and therefore a planned delivery here, the infant born to a mother who attends Mount Sinai for her antenatal/obstetric care with a planned delivery at Mount Sinai.

It is the latter group where the family really chooses to deliver here.  They come here because they know that we have the expertise to take care of their infant regardless of what might evolve.
We have a continuous experienced neonatal resuscitation team which can provide resuscitation and stabilization of the infant should there be any emergency requiring treatment at delivery or after birth.
We offer breastfeeding support and neonatology consultation services to all infants born at this hospital.

Medical providers direct other families to Mount Sinai, as they have determined a need for the specialized services we offer.

We are a founding member of the Canadian Neonatal Network and we are actively involved in the Vermont Oxford database projects. We were a founding member of the Perinatal Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society. Collectively we are among the largest contributors of reviews to the Neonatal Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration. We are represented at the Board of the Canadian Institute of Health, the CNN, the Fetus and Newborn Committee of the CPS, the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System and the Ontario Perinatal Surveillance System. Through professional organizations we have developed national and international guidelines for neonatal care.

• Last year we had a total of 1089 discharges from our NICU, 60 per cent preterm, 21 per cent very low birth weight (<1500 grams) and 12 per cent extremely low birth weight (<1000 grams). Our survival rate for any of these infants is at par or better than any other centres in Canada or the US.

• Three new programs were introduced: Women's and Infants' Health Redevelopment, Nutrition; Milk Prep Room and Milk Bank Project; and Neurology: Neonatal MRI and Brain Monitoring