Preterm birth affects approximately 1 of every 10 infants born in the United States, and almost all of those infants will end up spending time in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or NICU. For many, this involves several days of infants receiving care in a hospital, with parents unable to take their babies home, disrupting their family and work life. Often the first question families ask their NICU care teams is, “When can I go home?” Recently, Children’s Minnesota launched the Children’s Home Application-based Monitoring Program, which is a one of it’s kind program in Minnesota that allows infants that qualify to receive expert care and monitoring by the baby’s neonatal care time at home, with overwhelmingly positive results. Here to discuss that program is Dr. Cristina Miller, one of our kid experts in neonatology and the medical director of the NICU follow up program.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-bringing-home-baby-10-28-22/