Delivered by Millennium Medical Group

A neonatologist in the room in the moments that decide everything.

Newborn emergencies don't schedule themselves and they don't only happen at academic medical centers. Perinatal Link puts a board-certified neonatologist on screen with your team for resuscitation, stabilization, and the transfer call.

Scope of service

Specialist support, the moment it's needed.

Resuscitation support

Live guidance through newborn resuscitation, the moments where minutes matter most.

Stabilization

Real-time management of the unexpected admission while your team works.

Ongoing management

Case support for the babies you keep, so your nursery can safely care for more of them.

Transport decisions

A specialist voice on whether the baby truly needs to go, and clean handoff support when transfer is right.

For your clinicians

Backup for whoever catches the baby.

In many community hospitals, the physician resuscitating a newborn is a pediatrician or a family medicine physician doing heroic generalist work. TeleNeonatology gives them a board-certified neonatologist alongside them in real time.

Your clinicians keep their patients and gain a specialist partner they can call without hesitation.

Who's on the call with your team
Your pediatrician or FP
At the bedside, hands on the baby
A board-certified neonatologist
On screen in real time, guiding the plan
Nobody manages a crashing newborn alone.
Keep babies local

The most valuable patient in the hospital is the one you don't have to transfer.

Avoidable newborn transfers cost hospitals more than avoidable maternal transfers, and they cost families most of all: a mother discharged in one town, a baby in a NICU three hours away.

When it's safe to keep the baby, we help your team do it with confidence. When it isn't, we help you move fast.

The neonatology practice that grew up in hospitals like yours

Meet Millennium Medical Group.

Millennium Medical Group started in 2017 with three neonatologists covering a single hospital NICU. No corporate parent, no roll-up. Physicians who believed babies deserve the best, wherever they're born.

Today MMG is a national practice with more than 100 providers, staffing and supporting nurseries and NICUs across multiple states, around the clock. Their teams don't just cover units. They design them, build them, and have transformed standard wards into full-service NICUs for hospital partners.2

The leadership is clinical to the top: a board-certified neonatologist CEO, a dual-boarded pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine CMO, and a chief nursing officer who has built NICUs from the ground up.2

Their operating philosophy is three words long: continuous, compassionate care. It's why community partners and payers work with them on the unglamorous parts of newborn health, like a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico grant program MMG ran to put hospital-grade lactation equipment into a partner NICU.3

Millennium Medical Group

Babies deserve the best.

2017Founded by three neonatologists
100+Providers across multiple states
24/7Around-the-clock coverage
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More than a video consult

What MMG's neonatologists bring to your nursery.

In the moment
  • Live resuscitation guidance through the golden hour
  • Stabilization of the unexpected admission
  • Ventilation and line decisions talked through in real time
  • The transfer call made with a specialist, not despite the lack of one
Around the program
  • Protocols and admission criteria matched to your nursery level
  • Case review that makes your pediatricians and family physicians stronger every quarter
  • Guidance on what your unit could safely keep with the right support, and what it never should

The same practice hospitals hire to build NICUs is the one on your screen at 2 a.m.

Levels of neonatal care

Know your level. Use all of it.

Neonatal care runs on a four-level framework.4 Perinatal Link is built for the first two.

Level IBuilt for this
Well-newborn nursery

Healthy term newborns and stabilization of the unexpected. This is most community hospitals, and the level the tele-specialty market ignored.

Level IIBuilt for this
Special care nursery

Moderately ill newborns, typically 32 weeks and up, expected to resolve quickly. Capable of far more than most Level IIs get credit for, with backup.

Level III · NICU

Comprehensive intensive care, subspecialty access, advanced respiratory support.

Level IV · Regional NICU

The sickest babies, surgical repair of complex conditions, the regional safety net.

Only 1,424 NICUs exist nationally, and the higher the level, the more they cluster in dense metros, children's hospitals, and academic centers.1 If you're a Level I or II, the system was drawn assuming your babies would travel.

Specialist backup changes what your level can safely do. Not by stretching your scope, but by using all of it: keeping the babies your level was designed to keep, and escalating the rest earlier and better.

Why it matters

Why the first minutes and the first days matter so much.

Newborn resuscitation is the highest-stakes routine event in medicine. When it goes wrong in a small hospital, it's usually not because the team lacked skill. It's because they were alone. Published teleneonatology programs have shown that putting a neonatologist on screen during resuscitations improves the quality of those resuscitations and helps avoid transfers that didn't need to happen.5

The pressure on the system is rising, not falling. NICU admissions at U.S. children's hospitals grew across every preterm category from 2017 to 2022, costs rose roughly 20%, and the share of NICU babies with complex chronic conditions passed 50%.6 Tertiary beds are getting fuller and more expensive. Regional systems need community nurseries to safely keep every baby they can.

And what happens after the NICU matters too. Reporting on a 2025 New America study found that roughly half of NICU graduates referred to early-intervention services never actually enroll.7 Babies who stay close to home stay closer to follow-up, pediatricians, and the families who fight for them.

$275,2086
median hospitalization cost for an extremely preterm infant at a children's hospital
50.9%6
of children's-hospital NICU admissions now involve complex chronic conditions
~Half7
of NICU infants referred to early intervention never enroll
Sources
  1. NICUs in the US: levels of acuity, beds, and population factors. J Perinatol, 2023.
  2. Millennium Medical Group, mmghealth.com (About, Services, FAQ).
  3. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico newsroom, 2024.
  4. AAP levels of neonatal care policy statement.
  5. Teleneonatology outcomes literature (Mayo Clinic; Intermountain / Albritton et al., Health Affairs 2018).
  6. Vance et al. Trends in NICU admissions and costs, US children's hospitals 2017-2022. J Perinatol, 2026.
  7. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Oct 2025, reporting on a New America study.
Better together

When mom's case is what put the baby at risk, the MFM is already on the call too.

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Let's talk.

Give your nursery a neonatologist on call.