{"id":144961,"date":"2011-11-28T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=144961"},"modified":"2011-11-30T02:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T08:11:35","slug":"mother-frances-nicu-marks-third-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=144961","title":{"rendered":"Mother Frances NICU Marks Third Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=144965\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-144965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/thumb_MotherFrances-sign-21-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_MotherFrances-sign-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-144965\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Mother Frances Hospital marked its third anniversary Monday with visits from children who received treatment there in the past year.  The NICU, the first of its kind in East Texas, is equipped to care for babies born as early as 28 weeks or weighing as little as 2.2 pounds.  It also takes care of full-term babies with breathing difficulties, infections, and other health conditions.   Celebrations like the one held Monday are put on each year by the NICU.<\/p>\n<p>NICU Medical Director Dr. Brenda Morris says, &#8220;It&#8217;s always a blessing for our staff to see these children come back to us and to see how much they&#8217;ve progressed.  Since the opening, we have admitted over 1,200 infants with an average length of stay of 12 days.&#8221;  Morris says among the best things about the annual celebrations are the thank-yous she and her staff get from the parents &#8212; who would likely have had to take their newborns as far as Dallas before the Mother Frances NICU opened.  Morris points out that it&#8217;s a big help if parents can be close by, with breastfeeding access being a significant consideration.  She adds, &#8220;13 per cent of Smith County newborns are premature, and nearly 10 percent of all newborns require the medical expertise only available in a NICU.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Mother Frances Hospital marked its third anniversary Monday with visits from children who received treatment there in the past year. The NICU, the first of its kind in East Texas, is equipped to care for babies born as early as 28 weeks or weighing as little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=144961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother Frances NICU Marks Third Anniversary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 19:43:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144961"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145388,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144961\/revisions\/145388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}