Morning Insider Lauren Victory takes us inside Will County's first neonatal intensive care unit.
Inside Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, baby Brooke needs extra TLC that she wouldn't have received here if she was born just a few weeks earlier. The hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, only opened at the end of July.
Previously, about 50 Silver Cross-born babies each year that needed special heat-regulated beds and other intensive care equipment had to be transferred to the next closest NICU, likely in Chicago or Peoria. Those parents, from Will County and surrounding areas, would have to travel dozens of miles to see their newborns. Michele Vana can imagine. Her triplets were born months premature in 1995.
That meant nine weeks commuting back and forth from her home in Lockport to a NICU in the City, usually more than two hours roundtrip. "Now we can do surgery that we weren't able to do before," said Silver Cross NICU medical director Dr. Corryn Greenwood. The new unit is staffed with neonatal experts and equipped for all sorts of care.
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