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Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant.

It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

The principal patients of neonatologists are newborn infants who are ill or requiring special medical care due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations (birth defects), sepsis, pulmonary hypoplasia or birth asphyxias.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents, and the age limit usually ranges from birth up to 18-21 years of age (in some places until completion of secondary education).

A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician.

The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children"; they derive from two Greek words: (pais "child") and (iatros "doctor, healer").

Pediatricians work both in hospitals, particularly those working in its specialized subfields such as neonatology, and as primary care physicians.

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

Founded as a newsweekly magazine in 1933, U.S. News transitioned to primarily web-based publishing in 2010.

U.S. News is best known today for its influential Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, but it has expanded its content and product offerings in education, health, money, careers, travel, and cars.

The rankings are popular in North America but have drawn widespread criticism from colleges, administrations, and students for their dubious, disparate, and arbitrary nature.

The ranking system by U.S. News is usually contrasted with the Washington Monthly and Forbes rankings.

A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children and adolescents.

Most children's hospitals can serve children from birth up to the age of 18, or in some instances, children's hospitals' doctors may treat children until they finish high school.

The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties.