2019 NICU Reunion reunites premature babies and their caregivers
The annual Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Reunion featured barbecue dinners, plus a fall festival-themed community event that included games, entertainment and popular children's characters.
Hundreds of babies, toddlers, teens and their parents gathered under blue skies at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital on Sunday, Oct. 20, to reunite with the men and women who helped them thrive in the days after they were born too soon.
The annual Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Reunion featured barbecue dinners, plus a fall festival-themed community event that included games, entertainment and popular children's characters.
NICU graduates are babies who were born premature, underweight or ill, and were treated in the NICU at Children’s & Women’s Hospital. The Level III NICU provides the region’s most advanced care for premature and critically ill newborns. NICUs are classified by the level of care they are equipped and certified to provide. Level III NICUs provide comprehensive care to the sickest of newborns.
At least 1,000 babies are admitted annually to the hospital’s NICU in Mobile. Most days, at least 80 premature infants are cared for in the unit.
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