SAN ANTONIO – Hundreds of NICU graduates and their families reunited with doctors and nurses from Baptist Health System Sunday, celebrating the milestones reached since leaving the neonatal intensive care unit.
“We take care of the tiniest patients and they can be very sick at times,” said Dr. Jaclyn Levan, a neonatologist at Baptist Health System. “To reconnect with those parents and be able to see how well that baby is doing outside of the NICU is really why we’re doing this.”
More than 400,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). For their families, the NICU is a world most never expect to enter…