November is Prematurity Awareness Month,
Announcement Comes in Celebration of World Prematurity Day on
Friday, Nov. 17
LONG
BEACH, Calif., Nov. 16,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MemorialCare Miller
Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach, along with Pediatrix
Medical Group, who has been a long-standing neonatology partner
with MemorialCare, have come together to create the Miller
Children's & Women's Neonatal Network. This new relationship
enables coordinated delivery of provider services to the neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU) network establishing a forum for
improved communication, financial transparency, and shared program
and provider planning. The Neonatal Network will have shared
governance between Miller Children's & Women's and Pediatrix,
with the neonatologists remaining employees of Pediatrix.
Miller Children's & Women's features a level IV NICU, the
highest designation in California,
signifying it can care for the sickest and smallest babies. In
addition, it has an extremely low birth weight program – caring for
babies less than 2 pounds at birth – and has a transport program
that allows Miller Children's & Women's the ability to support
area community hospitals with smaller and lower acuity maternity
and neonatal care.
"Expanding Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach
as a regional destination for neonatal and pediatric care is an
important part of our mission in caring for the most premature and
sickest babies, as well as their families," says Yair Katz, chief executive, Miller Children's
& Women's. "With all that we are seeing going on in the world
today in children's health, we were deeply committed to seeing this
through so we can do our part to ensure all babies and their
families have access to the highest level of care possible
regardless of socioeconomic status."
To successfully execute this strategic initiative, Miller
Children's & Women's has appointed Dr. Antoine Soliman as the Regional Medical Director
of the Miller Children's & Women's Network. In this
administrative capacity, Dr. Soliman will oversee the performance
and quality of the network, lead the onboarding of new sites and
serve on the joint operating committee. Dr. Soliman will remain a
practicing neonatologist in a limited capacity in Miller Children's
NICU, to maintain his direct patient care provider experience. In
addition, Dr. Soliman will continue to serve as medical director of
the Miller Children's NICU and oversee the recruitment of his
replacement for this role.
"I'm deeply honored and humbled to accept the regional
directorship of the Miller Children's & Women's Neonatal
Network," says Dr. Soliman. "Miller Children's & Women's has
made great advances in neonatal care the last few years, graduating
healthier babies born quite ill and extremely premature. Our team
is remarkable and expanding our capabilities further into the
community is paramount to us. I can't think of a better time to
announce and launch this partnership, as we celebrate Prematurity
Awareness Month and World Prematurity Day later this week."
Miller Children's & Women's, one of eight free standing
children's hospitals in California, is unique in that it has a
full-service maternity and high-risk program licensed under the
children's hospital. This expanded neonatal network will also
support regional care by laying the groundwork for recruitment of
top talent and bringing access to high-risk maternal and neonatal
care into bordering communities' backyards – delivering the highest
level of care possible.
About MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital
Long Beach:
MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's
Hospital Long Beach is a member of MemorialCare, a not-for-profit,
integrated health care system. Miller Children's & Women's is
one of only eight free-standing children's hospitals in
California, is recognized by
U.S. News & World Report as a 'Best Children's Hospital'
for pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery — treating more than
14,000 children each year — and has become a regional pediatric
destination for more than 65,000 children, who need specialized
care in outpatient specialty and satellite centers. With
maternal-fetal medicine specialists and neonatologists available
24/7, Miller Children's & Women's cares for women with
high-risk pregnancies and premature infants under one roof.
About Pediatrix Medical Group
Pediatrix® Medical
Group, Inc. (NYSE:MD) is the nation's leading provider of
physician services. Pediatrix-affiliated clinicians are committed
to providing coordinated, compassionate and clinically excellent
services to women, babies and children across the continuum of
care, both in hospital settings and office-based practices.
Specialties include obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine and
neonatology complemented by more than 20 pediatric subspecialties,
as well as pediatric primary and urgent care clinics. The group's
high-quality, evidence-based care is bolstered by significant
investments in research, education, quality-improvement and safety
initiatives. The physician-led company was founded in 1979 as a
single neonatology practice and today provides its highly
specialized and often critical care services through more than
5,000 affiliated physicians and other clinicians in 37 states. To
learn more about Pediatrix, visit www.pediatrix.com or
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the Pediatrix blog. Investment information can be found
at www.pediatrix.com/investors.
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