ICU baby

ICU baby is on a mission to unite NICU families by providing emotional, financial, and informational support so babies and their families can thrive together in the NICU.  

We launched our first program in South Miami Hospital on November 17, 2015 and have introduced 8 more programs to the NICU community since then. We are proud to support families with a critically ill or premature baby in the NICUs of Jackson Memorial Medical Center's Holtz Children's Hospital (127 beds), Baptist Health's South Miami Hospital (62 beds), Nicklaus Children’s Hospital (54 beds), Mt. Sinai Hospital (16 beds) and Florida University Hospital (32 beds). 

Impacting the NICU Experience of Many:

- 3,798 NICU Families Supported

- 2,787 NICU Packs Delivered

- 7,926 Transportation Stipends Distributed to Low Income Families

- 178 In-Hospital, Catered Meals of Support Served to 2000+ NICU Family Members

- 558 NICU Babies Read to by ICU baby Volunteers

- 1,864 ICU baby Community Volunteers Supporting NICU Families

- 6,560 NICU Emotional Support Hours Logged

- 856 NICU Empowerment Support Tools (NEST) Distributed to Offer NICU Health Literacy

- 1,179 TAP (Transportation Assistance Program) Families

- 3,911 Total Families Impacted

- 21,158 Minutes Read 

Points of Pride:

- ICU baby is the largest NICU family support organization in Florida and one of the largest in the country!
- All programs are linguistically accessible in English, Spanish & Haitian Creole.
- Our most recent statewide award was the 2022 Florida Blue Sapphire Award for Innovation Programming.
- ICU baby has advisory roles on national platforms including the Family Centered Care Task Force, NICU Parent Network and the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative. 

ICU baby is transforming the NICU experience so that parents feel more empowered, babies feel more nurtured, families feel more connected and communities offer more support. 

Check out our website for more details about our work and opportunities to get involved!