Neonatal Care
The Eastern Oklahoma Perinatal Center (EOPC) is the neonatal intensive care unit of The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis. It is a specialty referral hospital that serves infants from all across Oklahoma and neighboring states.
Averaging 650 admissions each year, the EOPC is a progressive regional newborn intensive care unit with services specifically designed for babies born prematurely or with serious medical problems. The EOPC is a 44-bed unit with in-house neonatologists on hand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Center has earned a Level IIIC designation, the highest rating possible for a neonatal intensive care unit, from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) treatment began at Saint Francis Hospital in 1988. The program of the EOPC is one of 132 ECMO centers in the world and is the only program of its kind in Tulsa.
In addition to the more than 90 nurses working around the clock in the EOPC, the unit's clinical manager, respiratory therapists, developmental specialists, discharge coordinator, lactation consultant, laboratory technologists, pharmacists and other support personnel provide the comprehensive care critically ill infants need.
The Neonatal Transport team partners with Tulsa Life Flight and is composed of registered nurses and respiratory therapists. The team transports 355 neonates per year from 40 referring hospitals where the complex care needed is unavailable to these tiny patients.
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