About MSH’s Valentine Neonatal Intensive Care Unit:
One of the largest in Canada, Mount Sinai Hospital’s
Valentine Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) offers
specialized medical and nursing attention to high-risk
and critically ill infants, providing acute, convalescent,
and chronic care to babies weighing anywhere between
less than 1 pound to over 10 pounds. Treatment is
provided to newborns with a range of illnesses such
as: prematurity and infection to respiratory distress
syndrome, birth trauma or congenital anomalies.
Serving nearly 1,100 infants annually, Mount Sinai’s
NICU is a model program, providing experienced round-the-clock care, sophisticated life-saving procedures and monitoring equipment, as well as special quiet rooms and support programs for parents.
Mount Sinai has built a team of specialists who have developed special expertise in managing a variety of unusual newborn problems, where the life of the mother-to-be or an unborn baby is threatened — our specialists are called upon from healthcare professionals around the world for advice.
For more information about Mount Sinai Hospital please visit, www.mtsinai.on.ca
