ABSTRACT
Ste-Justine's Hospital is a paediatric centre which provides neonatal intensive care as well as care for high-risk obstetric patients. There are 4,000 deliveries per year, 30 per cent of whom are from high-risk mothers. The neonatal intensive care unit admits 1,400 newborns per year, 40 per cent of whom are referred from hospitals elsewhere in the Province of Quebec, which deliver approximately 50,000 babies per annum. The neonatal department is divided into an intensive care unit and normal postnatal wards. The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has two sections, an intensive care area which can manage up to 17 newborns, and an intermediate care nursery limited to 4042 beds.
