There are three different levels of newborn care available at different hospitals:

Low-risk care (Level I)

These hospitals provide care for low-risk women and their babies throughout and after childbirth. After childbirth, these hospitals provide postpartum care for both the mother and her newborn baby. They must be able to resuscitate and stabilize newborn babies if necessary, and evaluate and care for them until they are discharged from hospital. They stabilize and transfer newborn babies and mothers who need specialty or subspecialty care to an appropriate facility. They also provide nursing care to newborn babies who have been returned to low-risk care from a specialty or subspecialty hospital.

Neonatal transport

Some premature and newborn babies with serious health problems are born in hospitals providing low-risk care, that cannot give the required level of care. They are transferred to a specialty or subspecialty hospital with the appropriate facilities by a transport team. The transport team generally includes at least two of the following people:

transport physician

transport nurse

transport respiratory therapist

Specialty care (Level II)

Hospitals that provide specialty care services have the same responsibilities as low-risk care hospitals, and they also offer a number of extra services. They take care of