The University of Kansas Hospital NEW NICU!!!!!

The University of Kansas Hospital....(the hospital I work at, in case you didn't know)

Is getting a new NICU!!!!!!

as of May 6th we will have a brand new gorgeous state of the art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 

 These are construction pics and not everything is finished yet but here you can kind of see what it will look like. This is a patient room in the blue hallway. (there are also yellow and green hallways to make a big U shape.) Each room will be private and have a sleeper couch for parents, the babies will have their own refrigerator in their room for breastmilk and formula feeds.

 This is looking through the clean utility room that will be stocked with clean linens and medical supplies.

 Here is a green room, and this is actually one our twin rooms. There is a door on the right at the back of the room that can open to make it an ajoining room to another twin room for quads or triplets.

 This is the entry hallway into the new unit. A parent lounge on the right and offices for our residents, attendings, neonatal nurse practioners and nurse manager and educators on the left.

This is the front of the walk through nurse's station. Love the tile


Other features the unit will have:

• Ambient lighting that cycles every 6 hours on dimmers from dark to light that help the babies with day and night time since they often cannot have sunlight in their rooms. 
• A surgical suite for babies that are too sick to take to the main OR, the surgical lighting comes out of the ceiling and there are controls for proper air flow. 
• New scrub sinks with timers to help staff and families scrub in for 3 minutes up their elbows before touching a baby.
• a huge breakroom
• private offices for the residents, attendings, neonatal nurse practioners (they all share now).
• Sleeper rooms for doctors or nurse practioners staying over night
• our own private conference room
• parent lounge
• parent showers/ bathroom
• waiting room
• and private suites for the babies (they are all in one huge open room now with 5 foot tall walls to help separate them into "pods")

We CANNOT wait, this has been 10 years in the making. God forbid any of you have a baby that needs to be admitted in the NICU at KU but if they do, you have a pretty snazzy set up coming soon!

Looking down the hallway

Pictures framed down the yellow hallway

A green room with the couch/bed pulled out. 

A yellow room set up with an omnibed

The nurses station. 

A green hallway charting station outside of the room.