NICU Family Resources

Through multidisciplinary collaboration and a dedicated and creative team, we make families comfortable and welcome in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Betty H. Cameron Women's and Children's Hospital. We are a family-centered facility and are comitted to the care of our tiny patients.

Some of the ways we improve a family's stay include:

• Family coordinator rounding in NICU

• Thursday night NICU family dinner

• Mother's Milk Club Luncheon

• Peer to Peer support for Ante-partum families includes rounding, NICU tours, and craft cart

• Homeward Bound class

• NICU Sibling story time, craft and snack event

• Dad to Dad Support (by request)

• Special holiday celebrations for NICU families and staff (Thanksgiving,  Christmas, Easter, Summer BBQ, Labor Day)

• Semi-annual planting of the NICU Family garden

• 3 Kangaroo-a-thons per year

NICU Family Coordinators and select Neonatal Family Advisors have engaged as valued team members on Quality Improvement work for over 8 years.  We represent the family voice on numerous hospital based committees and QI teams, VON QI teams, and VON travel teams. 

Some of our contributions through the years are listed below:

• Developmental Follow Up

• NHRMC Board of Trustees Quality & Patient Safety Retreat

• Practice Council

• NICU Model of Care-Kaizen Event

• NICU Model of Care Value Stream Mapping

• NICQ NEXT2-Teams and Teamwork

• iNICQ2016-Choosing Antibiotics Wisely

• NICQ Next-Optimizing Nutrition/Minimizing NEC

• iNICQ Improving outcomes for Infants & Families affected by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome              

• NICQ Infection Control