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Innovation that is Family Friendly

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Here’s a NICU that’s engaging and using the parents as caregivers for sick children and it’s working!

Leading Intensive Care for Newborns – WSJ.com
Now, thanks in part to Dr. Cole’s lead, the focus in many NICUs has shifted from simply keeping the tiny infants alive to ensuring that they and their families thrive, physically, socially and emotionally.”This is a very, very hot topic in newborn intensive care,” says Beverly Johnson, president of the nonprofit Institute for Family-Centered Care. It’s the subject of annual conferences, and a major emphasis of both the March of Dimes and the Vermont-Oxford Network, a collaboration of 800 NICUs around the world.