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Nurses and staff at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Franciscan Health Crown Point are engaging families with a Halloween celebration by dressing newborns in various costumes. The costumes include themes such as a mouse, football player, the Chick-fil-A cow, grandpa, sugar plum princess, ladybug, bumble bee, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, and a girl enjoying a spa day.
Carrie Renschen, director of the Family Birth Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Franciscan Health Crown Point, expressed the significance of this initiative: "It's important for families experiencing a stay in the NICU to be able to celebrate milestones like dressing up baby for a first Halloween and we want to be able to give them that experience." She added, "Franciscan Health strives to treat our patients and their families body, mind and spirit and I applaud our team for the care they took in making this happen for our NICU families."
In 2022, Franciscan Health Crown Point partnered with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. This collaboration introduced one of the nation's leading neonatology programs to Northwest Indiana. Lurie Children's neonatologists now manage the 20-bed Level III NICU at Franciscan Health Crown Point.
For more information about the services offered by Franciscan Health Family Birth Center Crown Point and its NICU, interested parties can visit their website or call 219-757-6330.
