CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs Joins ACH’s Nursery Alliance

CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs (Photo provided by CHI)

CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs announced Wednesday that it is joining Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nursery Alliance, which will coordinate care between neonatologists at ACH’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and physicians in CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs’ Anthony Childbirth Center.

The alliance was established in 2016.

Neonatologists at ACH will provide immediate consults to physicians at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs, educational support, quality data review, implementation of best practices in collaboration with ACH, and provide training through telemedicine for the purpose of improving neonatal care close to home. 

In addition, the alliance offers development of opportunities to track and monitor outcomes and participation in ongoing research. Another benefit is post-discharge followup by monitoring and measuring other health conditions through an expanded High Risk Newborn Clinic network.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital operates the state’s only designated Level IV NICU (100 beds).

CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs manages the largest birthing center in the region it serves, with physicians delivering nearly 1,000 newborns every year. The Anthony Childbirth Center has capacity for 15 newborns. The nursing staff is made up entirely of registered nurses, and CHI St. Vincent’s Level II nursery can provide care for most infants.