Conditions and services

We’re able to provide life-saving care for babies with severe lung conditions, heart failure or other serious medical conditions through the use of our highly specialized ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machines. They enrich the child’s blood with oxygen and then pumps it back into the body.

A partnership between Children’s Minnesota and Allina Health, the Midwest Fetal Care Center is home to surgeons and physicians who are able to treat — and often cure — babies with high-risk conditions while they’re still in the womb. Their expertise includes open-fetal surgery, which few places in the country offer, as well as sophisticated diagnostics and testing.

For NICU babies, time is precious. Our neonatal transport team is able to deliver newborns in need from any distance in the Upper Midwest. They receive specialized training to provide the safest transfer of patients, which can be done by ambulance, helicopter, fixed-wing plane or our critical care rigs. Transport service is available around the clock, seven days a week — the neonatal team is equipped to implement treatments such as nitric oxide therapy immediately upon arrival at the hospital and during the transport.

This clinic provides you and your family with an assessment of your child in the months and years following intensive care they received at Children’s Minnesota. Through the clinic, your child’s progress is monitored at regular intervals. This allows us to assess how your child is doing and be able to identify any issues early on, before your child reaches school age, to ensure that timely referrals can be made to your physician and other specialty providers. Unique to Children’s Minnesota, the clinic also offers IQ testing with a clinical psychologist and sees patients up to five years of age. Read more about the Intensive Care Follow-up Clinic.

The Kid Experts^® At Home monitoring program allows infants in our NICUs who meet certain criteria to be discharged from the hospital sooner, while expert care and monitoring continues at home. This cutting-edge program, available at all three of our NICU locations, is the only one of its kind in the state of Minnesota. Read more about The Kid Experts^® At Home monitoring program and how it benefits babies and families.