The Fetal Anomaly Care and Treatment Program at Medical City provides the highest level of comprehensive care for mothers carrying babies with congenital defects. We bring together the brightest minds from Medical City Women’s and Medical City Children’s Hospital to create and implement individualized care plans to optimize your baby’s health. Our highly specialized multidisciplinary team includes obstetric, neonatal and pediatric specialists.

Just as important, our hospital provides a family-centered birthing experience that ensures mother and baby remain together throughout their stay. The comforting environment is filled with helpful resources. Medical City is one of only a few centers in the nation—and the only one in North Texas—to provide fetal surgery, pediatric open heart surgery and other leading-edge pediatric services all under one roof.

Our Center
As a regional referral center, our maternal and pediatric center includes a 37-bed NICU, 10-bed PICU and dedicated 10-bed Congenital Heart unit. Specialty pediatric nursing and 24-hour intensivist coverage also enable us to address babies’ special needs. Our program continues to grow to meet the needs of special-care newborns.

• Level III C Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with advanced abilities to care for medically fragile infants with most neonatal conditions including cardiac surgery
• Level III Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Level III High Risk OB
• Level III Labor and Delivery

Technology and Capabilities
While managing the health of expectant mothers, Medical City advocates for early detection and treatment of fetal anomalies. We provide leading-edge treatments and care, including:

• Targeted sonographic evaluation of structural fetal anomalies
• Fetal echocardiography by specialized fetal cardiologists
• Ultrafast fetal MRI for structural abnormalities
• Diagnostic fetoscopy
• Intrauterine fetal surgery for life-threatening fetal conditions
• Genetic and prenatal counseling

Multidisciplinary Team
Medical City Women’s and Medical City Children’s Hospital provide a full complement of practitioners board-certified in their specialties. Subspecialists include:

• Perinatologists
• Cardiologists specializing in fetal echocardiography
• Neonatologists
• Congenital heart surgeons
• Pediatric neurosurgeons
• Pediatric craniofacial surgeons
• Pediatric nephrologists
• Pediatric gastroenterologists

Additionally, we offer a wide array of pediatric health programs to meet every need in a special way.

Your Visit
Our Fetal Anomaly Care and Treatment program seamlessly coordinates care for both mother and baby. From the first contact, compassionate professionals will guide you through diagnostics, decisions, treatments and recovery. We will explain medical information in detail, take time to answer all your questions and give you a tour of our facility.

Contact Information and Scheduling
To initiate an urgent transport/transfer from another facility, call Medical City Labor and Delivery at 972-566-7164. Or call the main Medical City operator at 972-566-7000 and ask for Labor and Delivery.

To initiate a scheduled delivery or transfer of a patient, contact the Medical City Women’s Fetal Anomaly Care and Treatment Program Coordinator:

Karen Muery, RN-C MSN CNS
Perinatal Programs Coordinator
866-940-3228
Fax: 972-566-2353
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