The Will Rogers Institute committed $400,000 in grants for neonatal intensive care. The money will provide much needed equipment such as critical airway carts, Neopuff™infant resuscitators, incubators, inhaled nitric oxide therapy technology and Omni Beds. It is the goal of WRI to become the leading provider of neonatal ventilators.
Children’s Hospital in Boston
is one of the world’s preeminent centers for the care of critically ill
infants. Because many patients are diagnosed in utero through
Children’s Advanced Fetal Care Center, they can prepare comprehensive
treatment plans before they enter the world — and whisk these babies
straight from the delivery room to the NICU. The grant is being used to
purchase a critical airways cart, which allows for alternative methods
of intubation in emergency situations, and a qPCR machine to process
DNA and RNA samples to advance novel pulmonary-newborn research.
Cook Children’s Medical Center was
founded to provide medical and surgical care to the children of the
Western Metroplex and West Texas.The 55-bed neonatal intensive care
unit (NICU) at Cook Children’s Medical Center cares for more than 700
newborns and infants with problems related to premature birth,
respiratory distress, birth anomalies, sepsis, neurological conditions,
and conditions requiring surgery. Cook’s Children Medical Center will
be using the grant to purchase a ventilator and an incubator for the
NICU.
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a not-for-profit pediatric medical center that has served the children of East Tennessee since 1937. They are the only comprehensive regional pediatric center in the eastern region of Tennessee.
Prentice Women’s Hospital in
Chicago, Illinois is the largest birthing center in the Midwest and is
poised to be among the top five birthing centers in the nation by
volume of births. The hospital’s renowned Renée Schine Crown Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit expanded to accommodate 86 beds for critically ill
newborns, making it one of the largest facilities of its kind in the
country.This grant will purchase inhaled nitric oxide therapy
technology.
Sinai Children’s Hospital (SCH) is a specialty hospital within Mount Sinai Hospital serving Chicago’s west side. SCHannually provides more than 19,000 days of inpatient care for 6,100 children and newborns. Its location, in themidst of economically distressed communities, ensures that it serve a low- and moderate-income population. Ninety-two percent of Mount Sinai Hospital patients rely on Medicaid or Medicare, or are uninsured. Sinai’s vision is to become the national model for the delivery of urban healthcare. The grant will be used to purchase an Omni Bed and ten Neopuff™infant ventilators for its NICU Small Baby Room.
The Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Columbus, Georgia, is entrusted with the care of infants from 27 Georgia and Alabama counties. The NICU was not equipped with a state-of-the-art incubator and was limited in its ability to care for and transport infants with severe pulmonary complications. They will use the grant for the purchase of a nitric oxide transport incubator that will enhance its capacity for care.
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