Community Medical Center - NICU

Our personal, family-centered approach emphasizes developmental care practices such as nesting and skin-to-skin contact (also known as kangaroo care). The visitation policy encourages parents to be with their babies as much as possible, and rooming-in prior to baby’s discharge is provided for moms who are ready to take their growing premature babies home. Community is a member of the Vermont-Oxford Network, which gives us access to an international database about neonates with birth weights of less than 1,500 grams, information for improving outcomes and quality of neonatal care. Community shares our mortality statistics, which are exceptionally low at both the state and national levels.