Tracking Infant Progress Statewide NICU Follow Up

Tracking Infant Progress Statewide is a comprehensive family-centered follow-up program that provides support services for high-risk infants and children.

This program offers specialized developmental follow-up evaluation and care for babies who have been in Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Tracking Infant Progress Statewide program is often referred to as TIPS.

• Our goals are to support optimal growth, developmental and behavioral outcomes for all children and their families and to serve as a consultant for primary care providers.
• Our program ensures that a team with expertise in early childhood development assesses each child, providing children with the best opportunity for success, especially if early intervention is necessary.

Program Eligibility

• Any infant admitted to the NICU for 72 hours or more is eligible.
• If your baby was in the NICU, this means their condition was serious enough at birth that health and development should be monitored more closely than most infants.
• Concerns addressed early often can be resolved much more satisfactorily than those that remain unresolved until later in life.
• Sometimes it can be reassuring just to hear that your baby is doing fine.

An Added Layer of Care

• Providers in our program do not replace your child’s primary care provider. We work in partnership with them.
• Through our unique follow-up program, developmental pediatricians follow babies born prematurely to look for and identify delays in typical development.

Developmental Assessment

• Children are screened up until age three.

Early Intervention

Clinic Locations

• Munroe-Meyer Institute
• Methodist Women’s Hospital
• Children’s Nebraska