Kangaroo Care: The concept for B.C.'s biggest, soon to open neonatal intensive care unit

High technology equipment has made a huge difference in the survival of the frailest and tiniest of premature babies. But the latest evidence shows that having the proper environment in neonatal intensive care units and lots of old-fashioned skin-to-skin contact between parents and babies provide myriad health benefits for both.
So in the state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, that opens next month in the new Teck Acute Care Centre on the campus of B.C. Children’s and