Cohen Children's Medical Center Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Transport

The pediatric and neonatal critical care transport team is part of Cohen Children's Medical Center, run by Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, New York. It is a hospital programme. It moves newborns, children and young adults by ground and by air.

Services

The team covers the New York metro area and beyond. A central call in center takes requests. The team brings intensive care equipment made for small patients and starts care as soon as a doctor calls. Northwell says this team is fully joined with its air and ground ambulance system.

The team

The crew includes transport nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, paramedics and EMTs. The nurses hold pediatric advanced life support, neonatal resuscitation, trauma nursing, critical care and certified flight nurse credentials. A doctor trained in newborn or child critical care goes along when needed. In most cases one parent may ride with the child.

How requests work

The team is sent through the Northwell Health Center for Emergency Medical Services dispatch center. Doctors who call also get access to the child specialists at Cohen Children's Medical Center.

Facts

• Type: hospital programme of Northwell Health
• Based at Cohen Children's Medical Center, New Hyde Park
• Transport by ground and air, for newborns through young adults
• Part of the Northwell air and ground ambulance system

Who it is for

The service is meant for referring doctors and hospitals that need to move a young patient to Cohen Children's Medical Center. Callers are asked to have the caller name, a callback number and details about the patient ready when they phone the transfer center.