The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Windsor Regional Hospital is giving golfers who attended a summer tournament a big high five.
The Julian Small NICU Golf Tournament on July 9th at Essex Golf and Country Club raised $100,000 which was used to buy a new Giraffe Omni-Bed Care Station.
It's a combined incubator and warmer for babies, specifically for preemies.
"This bed provides everything that they need," says NICU Clinical Practice Co-ordinator Jose Piazza. "In terms of neurodevelopment for heat and humidity and it provides them with an environment that is pretty much as close as we can get to the womb of a mom."
Piazza says the high-tech bed also weighs the baby and stores the information.
The Dr. Todd Small and Dr. Sarah Dale family. November 21, 2018 (Photo by AM800's Teresinha Medeiros)
Dr. Todd Small and Dr. Sarah Dale put on the Julian Small Golf Tournament after Dr. Dale had a difficult labour and delivery of her son Julian who is now 16 years old.
"A machine like this is something the community has to get together and raise because they are so expensive," says Dr. Small. "So a machine like this is around $75,000 so it is nice when a community can come together and do something fun like a golf tournament and raise enough money to buy one."
This is the fourth Omni-bed care-station at the hospital.