Care Levels for Fetal Therapy Centers

Ahmet A Baschat1, Sean B Blackwell, Debnath Chatterjee

  • 1Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas; the Department of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital Colorado/Colorado Fetal Care Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; the Department of Pediatrics & Bioethics, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Division of Pediatric, General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, Department of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; the Department of Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence; Rhode Island; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Clinical Pediatrics, and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; the Department of Pediatric Surgery, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; the Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; the Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; the Department of Surgery, Centre for Surgical Research, BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; the Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; Yale University School of Nursing, Orange, Connecticut; and the Ontario Fetal Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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