'This initiative will save lives': Ottawa Hospital plans new unit for preemie babies

Mark and Lynn Shabinsky were in awe of The Ottawa Hospital staff who cared for their tiny premature twin grandsons when they were born 2 1/2 years ago. They weren’t so wowed by the surroundings at the General campus’s neonatal intensive care unit, where incubators and cribs are grouped together and there’s little privacy for families.
Shabinsky, an Ottawa developer, wept Wednesday as he described the rollercoaster of emotions his family experienced when the premature babies wer