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:

- 4,181 NICU Families Supported

- 3,232 NICU Packs Delivered

- 7,926 Transportation Stipends Distributed to Low Income Families

- 227 In-Hospital, Catered Meals of Support Served to 4000+ NICU Family Members

- 793 NICU Babies Read to by ICU baby Volunteers

- 2,236 ICU baby Community Volunteers Supporting NICU Families

- 7,584 NICU Emotional Support Hours Logged

- 1,471 NICU Empowerment Support Tools (NEST) Distributed to Offer NICU Health Literacy

- 1,942 TAP (Transportation Assistance Program) Families

- 5,219 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!