IMPACT
A report to St. Mary donors detailing your impact through financial and in-kind support from July 2014 through June 2015.
2014-2015
REPORT
Nurturing the Family Bond Extensive renovations to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are complete
The entirely new NICU space was designed to enhance the family bonding experience while providing the highly specialized care premature or critically ill newborns require. Six private bays offer a comfortable environment where families can have around the clock access and interaction with their infant. A family sleeping room allows parents to stay nearby even when they need to rest. A private lactation room and sophisticated bottle warming system ensure breast feeding continues even when a mother cannot be onsite. Board-certified neonatologists and nurses trained in neonatal medicine provide leading-edge care to fragile newborns using sophisticated, but appropriately sized, equipment and technology. Every consideration was taken to make an infant’s stay in the NICU as comforting as possible for them and their family.
Private NICU suite
Donors warm up to ensure breast feeding success
Residents of Bucks County and surrounding Communities took part in a paddle auction at this year's Spring Gala and collectively raised more than $50,000 for the specialized bottle warmers used in the NICU. NICU bottle warmers are used to warm the breast milk mothers express to feed their babies. They hold sterile bottles as well as the syringes used to feed the tiniest of babies who are not yet able to feed from a bottle.