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The life of a nurse in Northside Hospital Forsyth’s NICU
The dedication of the nurses charged with taking care of premature babies doesn’t go unnoticed by families
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Northside Hospital Forsyth opened a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in 2008. The staff has quadrupled since then. - photo by Ben Hendren
For a preemie, even the ordinary can be complicated, but Northside Hospital Forsyth aimed to create a NICU armed for any situation. When it opened in 2008, there were 20 staff members. Today, it has 80, a menagerie of doctors and specialists and technicians and therapists. One wing of the NICU is devoted to preparing milk for babies with individualized “recipes.”
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