Agencies
Services
Perinatal Regionalization
Illinois Perinatal Regionalization Map of Hospitals
Large data table content is loading...
| Facility Name | Perinatal Network | Level | Address | City | State | County | Zip |
|---|
What is Risk Appropriate Perinatal Care (Perinatal Regionalization)?
Infants that deliver at appropriate level facilities are more likely to have better neonatal outcomes. Neonatal mortality is associated with gestational age, low birth weight, congenital malformations, and health problems originating in the perinatal period. Risk Appropriate Perinatal Care aims to increase the delivery of high-risk infants and mothers at appropriate level facilities.
Illinois has a robust perinatal regionalization system that includes 10 administrative perinatal centers. This has helped provide quality care to perinatal patients in Illinois since the perinatal regionalization system's inception in 1976.
The 10 administrative perinatal centers are:
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
OSF St. Francis Medical Center
Javon Bea Hospital - Riverside
St John’s Hospital
Loyola University Medical Center
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
Rush University Medical Center
University of Chicago Medical Center
In Illinois, through the perinatal regionalization system; level I, II, IIE, and III hospitals are evaluated every three years by the IDPH Office of Women’s Health and Family Services (OWHFS) through perinatal site visits that OWHFS perinatal nurses and the perinatal network administrators facilitate. These site visits follow the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules 640 rule and Part 250 Hospital and Licensing Requirements.
Level 0 hospitals in Illinois are not required to have a site visit every three years. However, the administrative perinatal centers are required to educate emergency department physicians and staff for obstetric patients who may show up for delivery.
Level 0
Hospitals with no obstetric services available.
Level 1
Hospitals that provide care to low-risk pregnant women and newborns, operate general care nurseries, and do not operate a NICU or special care nursery.
Level 2
Hospitals that provide care to women and newborns at moderate risk, operate intermediate care nurseries, and do not operate a NICU or special care nursery.
Level 2E
Hospitals with extended neonatal capabilities that can provide care to women and newborns at moderate risk and do operate a special care nursery but do not operate a NICU.
Level 3
Hospitals that provide care for patients requiring increasingly complex care and do operate a NICU.
