Yrok Central Hospital's NICU Celebrates Its First Anniversary!
York Central Hospital is celebrating the first anniversary of our new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The NICU was opened on December 14, 2010 and has expanded from six to twelve stations and can accommodate up to 13 babies. This means as operational funding increases, York Central's dedicated team of paediatric professionals will eventually have the capacity to care for twice as many of our tiniest and most vulnerable babies as the old unit. Each spacious care station was carefully designed and equipped specifically for infants needing special care and includes an isolette and physiological monitor, intravenous pumps, a bedside computer documentation system and phototherapy units.
The new NICU has the appropriate space allotment and design to more easily accommodate life-saving equipment and greater flexibility to deal with emergency situations. Now, mothers and other family members have more privacy at each station allowing them to spend more personal and quality time with their newest additions.
Ultimately, this leads to improved development for babies with challenges at birth and allows families in our community to remain close to home while their precious infant is in our care and take their babies home sooner.
Thank you to all the staff, volunteers, physicians and our incredible donors, including the project's largest donor, The Volunteer Association of York Central Hospital, who helped make this project a reality!
Thank you to the following donors for generously funding the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit:
Casino and Hold’em Poker Event 2009
Casino and Hold’em Poker Event 2010
CIBC Wood Gundy
Fabrizio and Nicole Cortellucci Family
Nancy Coxford
Fieldgate Developments
Manuel Fiuza and Vilma Cortellucci-Fiuza Family
G & L Group – Joe and Lucy Lamanna
Great-West Life Assurance Company
Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat Of Toronto
J.P. Bickell Foundation
Rose Mary Tomei-Kehren and Bill Kehren
Carl George Klees
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