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If your baby needs special care immediately after delivery, Saint Francis' obstetrical facility is well equipped to provide it. The facility includes four intensive care stations where neonatal specialists and other staff members can work to help stabilize the baby's condition. The Eastern Oklahoma Perinatal Center (EOPC), an intensive care nursery that is part of The Children's Hospital at Saint Francis, is adjacent to the labor and delivery unit.
If it is necessary to admit a baby to the Eastern Oklahoma Perinatal Center due to a serious illness, the staff of neonatologists, neonatal nurses and other healthcare professionals will work together to ensure the best possible outcome. This close affiliation with the intensive care nursery, a unit that serves babies born across the northeastern Oklahoma region, provides babies born at Saint Francis Hospital with a big advantage.
Eastern Oklahoma Perinatal Center
Each year, the Eastern Oklahoma Perinatal Center (EOPC) provides life-saving medical treatment for over 600 critically ill newborns from throughout the northeastern region of Oklahoma. A specially trained neonatal transport team helps bring babies born outside of Saint Francis Hospital to our care in a specially equipped medical van or by Tulsa Life Flight, Saint Francis' 24-hour emergency helicopter service. Learn more about the EOPC and some of the special programs it offers.
EOPC
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Classes
Developmental Follow-Up Clinic
Apnea Intervention Monitoring
The Protect Program
EOPC
A board-certified neonatologist especially trained to work with high-risk infants in the first 28 days of life directs the EOPC. It is staffed by additional neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, registered nurses, respiratory therapists, a social worker and other healthcare professionals who work to provide critically ill babies with the best chance at a healthy, normal life.
Babies who are admitted to our intensive care nursery receive personalized, individual care, using the most advanced equipment and techniques available. The EOPC staff supports your baby's continued development by providing you with strategies to help enhance the excellent medical care provided.
While in the EOPC, your baby will progress through different levels of care as he or she grows and gains strength. These levels will include the critical care module where infants are initially stabilized; the intermediate care module, where your baby continues to progress; and finally the predischarge module where we help parents prepare for caring for their baby at home.
Follow-up clinicians begin tracking infants at risk for developmental delays when they are admitted to the EOPC. Periodic developmental evaluations allow for individualized care plans specific to each patient. The staff is trained in developmental care concepts and interventions. This training allows them to read both behavioral and physiologic stress cues and respond accordingly.
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
The EOPC provides numerous essential and highly specialized services that are not readily available elsewhere in Oklahoma. The EOPC was the first neonatal intensive care unit to offer Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), a unique procedure which allows high risk infants to be placed on support equipment allowing their hearts and lungs to rest and heal. Simi
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