In the News
In Idaho’s Treasure Valley, the community has access to two neonatal intensive care units (NICUs): Saint Alphonsus Boise and Saint Alphonsus Nampa. In celebration of the units’ 20-year anniversary, Stewart Lawrence, M.D., NICU medical director and neonatologist at Mountain States Neonatology, an affiliate of Pediatrix® Medical Group, spoke to Boise State Public Radio to share his take on the growth of the units during the last 20 years. “I believe our NICU has grown with the growth of our population and the growth of our delivery volume,” he said. “There’s need for a place to provide highly sophisticated and highly personalized care for our most vulnerable, most fragile, smallest babies and sometimes full-grown babies that just don’t tolerate labor for one reason or another. As time went on after 2001, the need and demand for additional beds to take care of these babies grew very rapidly, much more so than we had ever anticipated.”
Listen to the full interview on Boise State Public Radio