Around 2,500 children are born at the MHH every year. As a Level 1 Perinatal Centre, the university is also ideally equipped for high-risk pregnancies and premature births. This was once again confirmed to the departments involved - Prenatal Medicine and Obstetrics as well as Neonatology - in the spring following a surveillance audit by periZert GmbH.
The MHH fulfills all spatial, technical and personnel requirements for the highest possible level of care. In practice, this means, for example, that the maternity ward, pediatric surgery and neonatal intensive care unit are connected, that there is always a neonatal emergency physician on site and that there are many diagnostic and therapeutic options.

Equally important is the professional cooperation between the various specialist disciplines. "The auditor expressly praised us for this," says Professor Dr. Bettina Bohnhorst. The cooperation works excellently at all levels, between the senior physicians of the departments just as well as between the physicians and the nursing staff and midwives.

The MHH is the second largest Level 1 Perinatal Centre in Lower Saxony. Between 500 and 600 newborns are treated there every year, including around 100 premature babies with a birth weight of less than 1,500 grams and numerous newborns with all kinds of malformations. Many mothers are already cared for by Prof. Dr. Constantin von Kaisenberg in prenatal diagnostics during pregnancy. tg (Source: MHHinfo 3/2021)