How to find a NICU in a different state

[none the wiser]

I did some searches and most of what I came up with was how to find a NICU job...but how do you find an actual unit to apply to?

I'm moving out of state after graduation, and I know where a NICU is in my state (I had a clinical there ) but I don't know where to begin looking for others.

On the offchance someone is from one of the states I'm thinking about: TN, VA, NC and maybe PA are all options.

[BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN]

did you try googling Neonatal ICU in "blank" state?

[none the wiser]

...that would have made too much sense Haha. I tried that just after I posted this thread actually. It did come up with some hospitals, but not many.

Before today, I've been using the google maps feature and just typing "hospitals" and looking manually. It seems...inefficient.

It'd be really nice if there were a directory where you could select the units you want, and hospitals with those specialty units would pop up. But I think the non-google maps trick might open up some more possibilities anyway. Thanks :)

[ittybabyRN, RN]

What I did was start with looking at all the states major children's hospitals, teaching hospitals and hospitals with large women/infant programs. Typically if you start with the area of the Children's hospitals there is likely to also be a large adults hospital nearby and those usually have NICU's too...and then pretty much where ever you figure out where the large children's hospitals and teaching hospitals are, there are usually a few other smaller hospitals in those areas as well. Looking for smaller more suburban hospitals will be a little trickier