Welcome to Florida's Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers Program!

The major goal of the Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers Program is to deliver optimal medical care to women with high-risk pregnancies and to sick/preterm newborns. Studies have indicated that maternal, fetal, and neonatal mortality rates can be reduced through early identification and early and continuous provision of specialized health care to pregnant women and newborns at high risk for disease, death, or disability.

Services

Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers have been designated throughout the state in order to improve the delivery of perinatal care services through:

• the concentration of high cost specialized health care and clinical expertise in designated hospitals in the state,
• the provision of community- based consultative prenatal services, and
• the provision of specific education for health care professionals involved with perinatal care.

Perinatal Education Programs

Numerous perinatal educational programs are offered at the centers and in community hospitals located throughout the state by center staff. Some of these include center-based obstetric and neonatal intensive care nursing courses and community-based one-day seminars for physicians and nurses.

Financial Resources

Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center services are available to all patients requiring these services. The only valid grounds for refusal to admit a patient are the lack of functional bed space or lack of transportation. Ability to pay for services is not a consideration for admission of patients in need of obstetrical or neonatal intensive care services. Medicaid, medical insurance and family resources cover the cost of care for patients treated at the centers. Patients whose care is provided by the RPICC Program must meet certain medical and financial eligibility criteria.

Summary

The ultimate goal of the Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers Program is to improve the outcome of pregnancy and the quality of life from birth. Since the inception of this program, Florida's neonatal mortality rate has been reduced from 13.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1974, to 4.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1999. Morbidity rates, or the quality of the survivors, have also improved. Florida has a model Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers Program. The provision of these perinatal intensive care services has had, and continues to have, a beneficial impact on the quality of life for the residents of Florida.

Florida Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers
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Jackson Memorial Medical Center 1611 Northwest Twelfth Avenue Miami, Florida 33136 (305) 585-6480 http://www.um-jmh.org/ Broward General Medical Center 1600 S. Andrews Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33316 (954) 355-5600 www.browardhealth.org/bgmc Tampa General Hospital Davis Islands Tampa, Florida 33606 (813) 251-7000 http://www.tgh.org Bayfront Medical Center 701 Sixth Street, South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 (727) 823-1234 http://www.bayfront.org All Children's Hospital 801 Sixth Street, South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 (727) 898-7451 http://www.allkids.org Arnold Palmer Hospital For Children And Women Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems 92 West Miller Street Orlando, Florida 32806 (407) 649-9111 http://www.arnoldpalmerhospital. org/default.cfm

Shands at the University of Florida J. Hillis Miller Health Center Gainesville, Florida 32610 (352) 395-0111 http://www.shands.org Shands Jacksonville 655 West Eighth Street Jacksonville, Florida 32209 (904) 549-5000 http://www.shandsjacksonville.com/ Sacred Heart Hospital 5151 North Ninth Avenue Pensacola, Florida 32513 (850) 416-7000 http://www.sacred-heart.org/ St. Mary's Medical Center 901 45th Street West Palm Beach, Florida 33416 (561) 844-6300 http://www.stmarysmc.com/ CWSContent/StMarysMC Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial Regional Hospital 3501 Johnson Street Hollywood, Florida 33021 (954) 987-2000 http://www.jdch.com Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida Lee Memorial Health System HealthPark Medical Center 9981 HealthPark Circle Ft. Myers, Florida 33908 (941) 433-7799 http://www.leememorial.org/ For further information on services available through this program, please contact the Children's Medical Services, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin A-06, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1707, (850) 245-4200, or contact locally: