The USC Division of Neonatal Medicine presently has fifteen academic neonatologists who work at the division’s two host sites and two affiliated hospitals. The LAC+USC Women’s & Children’s Hospital and the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles comprise the two host sites, while the affiliations include Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and Good Samaritan Medical Center.

On-service faculty neonatologists conduct bedside clinical and teaching rounds in the NICUs at each of the hospitals with 24 hours a day and 7 days a week clinical coverage. These neonatal units have available advanced technologies for the treatment of complex neonatal medical conditions, including persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, the spectrum of surgical cases and extreme prematurity. Nitric oxide therapy and high frequency oscillation are available at each hospital with the exception of Hollywood Presbyterian. Additionally, the NICU at CHLA has high frequency jet ventilation and ECMO services. These represent a few examples of the many state-of-the-art technical tools available to our faculty to aid in the treatment of the sickest neonates. Importantly, clinical management practices that include the use of the latest innovative tools in the field are structured and aided by the monthly evidence-based, faculty-consensus physicians’ clinical integration meetings, by the combined effort of many years of experience from the division’s neonatologists and by the faculty’s commitment to state-of-the-art basic, translational and clinical research, resident and fellow teaching and continuing medical education through regular reviews of the research literature and attendance at local, national and international conferences.