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Our High-Risk Infant Follow Up clinic provides comprehensive evaluation and follow-up services for children from birth to age two. We work in conjunction with your infant’s pediatrician and with you to improve your baby’s growth, development and nutritional status. We also identify any medical, neurological, or developmental abnormalities.
Our clinic provides education for parents and community providers, and we make referrals for Early Intervention and Partners Home Care.
Multidisciplinary Team
The High Risk team includes board-certified neonatologists (newborn medicine specialist), pediatric nurse practitioners, occupational therapists and neuropsychologists. Most infants are evaluated at three, seven and twelve months of corrected gestational age (if born prematurely, from the
due date, not the birth date) and two years of chronological age.
Conditions we treat include:
- birth weight less than 1500 grams (3 lbs., 5 oz..)
- gestational age less than or equal to 30 weeks
- Apgar score at 5 minutes of 3 or less
- history of neurological abnormality or intraventricular hemorrhage
- oxygen and/or diuretic dependent chronic lung disease
- infants with a positive drug screen/maternal substance abuse
- severe Intrauterine Growth Retardation
- ECMO Grade III or greater
- retinopathy of prematurity
- neonatal meningitis.
More about high-risk infants in the Health Library
