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WATCH YOUR BABY 24/7
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When a baby is born early, or is sick, there is nothing of more concern
to a new father or mother than not being able to be with their baby, day
and night. Even ten years later, mothers and fathers remember the pain
of needing to rest, but not wanting to leave their baby's side.
As part of our overall care and coordination, we started
BonSecoursNICU.net™. Using computer imaging, mothers who are recovering
themselves can see their baby or babies from their own bed, and parents
can see babies 24/7 from home. There is no charge for this service.
This high-tech video program, named BonSecoursNICU.net™, originally
started in May 2002 at Bon Secours Richmond hospitals, Memorial Regional
Medical Center in Mechanicsville and St. Mary's Hospital in the West
End. The program expanded to include St. Francis Medical Center, which
opened in September 2005 in Chesterfield.
The Bon Secours Richmond hospitals are the first in Virginia, and among
the first in the country, to encourage parents to monitor their children
from the mother's hospital room or from home with computers and video
cameras. The response has been overwhelming. Parents, physicians and
nurses alike say the project has dramatically improved parent
communication, satisfaction and confidence in their own capability to
care for their new babies at home.
The Bon Secours program uses a dedicated, secure URL to connect parents.
The baby can only be seen by viewers with a password. If a hospitalized
mother cannot physically be with her NICU baby or babies, or for when
she goes home, a tiny video camera at the baby's bedside transmits an
image to the parents anytime they request it, 24 hours a day. Parents
understand that the camera may occasionally be turned off when their
baby, or one nearby, is receiving treatments.
