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Nothing touches our hearts like an ill or premature newborn baby. Through the life-saving techniques of the specially trained physicians and nurses, babies that would have been sent to the Bay Area for medical care are staying here for treatment with their families and are growing up healthy and strong.
Because we are at capacity most of the time we are now expanding our licensure to 12 beds. In addition to the demonstrated need for additional beds, the excellent credentials and training of the staff has reached a level that has prepared us to elevate our unit to a Level III status. This means we will be able to keep more, sicker, younger, smaller babies here at home and become a referral center for other hospitals in the area. Approximately 12% of newborn babies require treatment in a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The new unit will have 20-beds and cover 9,000 square feet of existing floor space more than doubling the existing space.
The SVMH Foundation Board of Governors and members of our community feel that there is no more worthy cause than saving a baby’s life and for all of the child’s family to be able to be with him or her during the treatment period.
This is a monumental period in our entire history of providing maternal child health care for our community. Please join us and be a part of it.
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