Patients in the Akron Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can stay for days, weeks or months. These extended stays give the NICU nurses the opportunity to get to know the families, not just care for the babies, and form strong bonds. One such situation happened between NICU staff nurse Sadie DeMars, BSN, RN, and […]
Siblings with rare genetic disorder exceed expectations
Paul and Becky Lee’s son, Jack, entered the world 8 weeks early. It wasn’t apparent until the next day that something was wrong, other than his prematurity. Jack didn’t move, and doctors suspected a neurological condition. Jack spent 10 weeks in the Akron Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and then another 15 weeks in […]
