Regional NICUs

At Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center, Children's National Hospital physicians provide care 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for patients on the neonatal intensive care (NICU) and inpatient pediatric units.

As part of this collaboration, Children's National also provides pediatric neurology and cardiology services at Shady Grove Medical Center. Neonatology, hospitalist and telemedicine services will begin in early summer 2025, and pediatric surgery services will start in the fall.

Shady Grove Medical Center serves more than 5,000 children a year in its newborn programs and is home to the largest pediatric emergency room in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Children’s National manages the care of patients in the NICU at George Washington University Hospital, a Level III unit, servicing the metropolitan D.C. area. The program consists of full-time, board-certified neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners. This program provides care for sick newborns in the Washington, D.C., area, connecting them with pediatric subspecialty services at Children’s National and provides collaborative research opportunities between GWU and Children’s National clinical research teams.

Children’s National Hospital manages the care of patients in the NICU at Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), a Level III unit, servicing the Fredericksburg, Va., area. The program consists of full-time, board-certified neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners. This program provides care for sick newborns in the Fredericksburg, Va., region, connecting them with pediatric subspecialty services at Children’s National, and provides collaborative research opportunities between MWH and Children’s National clinical research teams.

Faculty

• Joshua Attridge, MD - Medical Director
• Audrone Laforgia, MD
• Misbah Qureshi, MD
• Barbara Snapp, NNP

Children’s National manages care of patients in the special care nursery at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, a Level II NICU that provides expert care for sick newborns in the Woodbridge, Va., area. The team at Sentara consists of full-time, board-certified neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners. The program allows neonatal patients in this area to have access to pediatric subspecialty expertise and services available at the Sheikh Zayed Campus.

Faculty

• Harsh Datta, MD
• Rosemary O'Neill, MD
• Barbara Snapp, DNP, NNP-BC
• Aziza Hull, PA
• Michelle Sabol, PA

Staffed by board-certified physicians from Children's National Hospital, the Level II NICU at Stafford Hospital is supported by the team of Children’s National pediatric hospitalists, led by medical director  Lana Ismail, MD. In addition to state-of-the-art care for sick newborns, our pediatric hospitalists provide consults for children in the emergency department. Our partnership connects this location to pediatric subspecialty services at Children’s National and provides collaborative research opportunities between Stafford Hospital, Mary Washington and the Children’s National clinical research teams.

As part of an ongoing partnership, Children’s National Hospital cares for patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Stone Springs Hospital Center, which serves the Loudoun County, Va., area. The Children’s National program consists of neonatologists, as well as hospitalists, in the nursery and in the delivery room providing 24-hour coverage, consultations, assessments and care to newborns. This program provides state-of-the-art care for sick newborns, connects this location to pediatric sub-specialty services at Children’s National and provides collaborative research opportunities between Stone Springs Hospital Center and Children’s National clinical research teams.