Having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an overwhelming experience for the whole family. Since June 2011, Andrews Women’s Hospital at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center and NICU Helping Hands have collaborated to provide Project NICU, a family support program within the NICU. Project NICU strives to be a source for reliable information, support and comfort for these families before, during and after the hospital stay.
Parents not only have to recover from the often complicated and /or premature birth of their baby, but must also cope with their child’s hospital stay while keeping the rest of their life in order. Project NICU is a family support program within the NICU that expands the support services and level of education provided to parents and family members affected by the hospitalization of a newborn in the NICU. Some of the support activities include Cookies with Santa for NICU families, family support dinners, craft hour and lunch on Thanksgiving Day.
Last year, the full-time NICU Helping Hands full-time Project NICU Facilitator, funded by the foundation, worked with over 900 Baylor Scott & White All Saints Antepartum and NICU families Project NICU is provided to free of charge to NICU patients and their families. These services are made possible by philanthropic gifts made through Baylor Scott & White All Saints Health Foundation.
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