Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Boise

St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Boise is home to Idaho's largest and most experienced Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Board-certified neonatologists are on site for 24/7 immediate care, and work with a broad array of pediatric surgical and medical subspecialists.

Virtually every newborn with an emergency or long-term need can be cared for in the Children's Hospital NICU, which is rated as a level 4 NICU (minus complex cardiac surgery and ECMO). Provide the highest level of neonatal care, with the exception of heart surgery and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), also known as heart-lung bypass.