From left: Margaret Grogan, MPA, BSN, RN, Director, Maternal Child Health Nursing, Mount Sinai West; Evan Flatow, MD, President, Mount Sinai West; Lisa M. Satlin, MD, Chair, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Health System; Lisa Eiland, MD; and Leonora Yaun, MA, RN, CLC, Nurse Manager, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
After a 14-month renovation project, Mount Sinai West celebrated the opening of its vastly expanded neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday, February 6. The NICU—which now occupies 14,000-square-feet of space, a 60 percent increase from its previous size—features 32 patient bays, offering families a bright, comforting environment to spend time with their newborns.
The NICU also has two isolation rooms and a “nesting room” with overnight accommodations for parents who wish to stay with their infants. “This expansion demonstrates our continued commitment to providing the best maternal child health patient experience for New Yorkers,”says Lisa Eiland, MD, Director of Newborn Medicine and Pediatrics at Mount Sinai West.