Clinical Services

The Special Infant Care Clinic (SICC), is a multidisciplinary medical and neurodevelopmental follow-up clinic for high risk infants. Clinic patients have either graduated from our Intensive Care Nursery or are referred by a well child care provider in the community. The clinic team is comprised of a neonatologist, pediatrician, child psychologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, social worker and nurse clinician. An occupational therapist and nutritionist are also available for consultation. The main objectives of our clinic are:

1) to assist the community well child care physician in providing early post discharge medical care and coordinating multiple subspecialist involvement for infants with complicated neonatal courses and chronic medical problems, and to facilitate the transition of total care of the chronically ill child with disabilities to the well child care provider by two to three years of age.

2) to monitor the neurodevelopmental progress of infants at significant risk for developmental problems, and when an abnormality is detected, to make appropriate referrals for intervention.

3) to assess whether the neurodevelopmental outcome of a particular child is consistent with his/her neonatal course, and if not, to initiate further diagnostic evaluation and appropriate referrals.

4) to train future well child care providers (pediatric and family practice residents) and neonatology fellows in neurodevelopmental assessment of high risk infants and post-discharge medical care of the intensive care nursery graduate. Fellow level training in neurodevelopmental research is available through the fellowship program.