Big Steps for Little Feet 2009
Pier Village, Long Branch, NJ
Sunday, September 13, 2009
On September 21, 2008, more than 400 people converged on The Great Lawn at the Pier Village in Long Branch and raised $50,000 for the Regional Newborn Center (RNC) at The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center. We are so grateful to the many walkers, strollers and four-legged friends who joined us for the second-annual Big Steps for Little Feet walkathon.
Plans are underway for Big Steps for Little Feet 2009, which will step off at Long Branch's oceanfront on Sunday, September 13. All proceeds of the event benefit an expansion of the neonatal intensive care unit at The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center.
The RNC is a state-designated regional perinatal center, the busiest and largest of its kind in Monmouth and Ocean counties, treating more than 500 infants each years from throughout central New Jersey. The RNC has a full array of highly sophisticated technology, and the caregivers focus on responding to a premature or high-risk infant's needs in a precisely measured and appropriate manner.
We hope you will help us to help the RNC reach even more families in need. Each gift truly makes a difference in the care that we provide to our most-fragile hospital patients.
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To learn more about Big Steps for Little Feet, or to inquire about supporting the capital campaign to expand the RNC, call 732-923-6886.
About The Regional Newborn Center
The Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center
The Regional Newborn Center (RNC) at Monmouth Medical Center -- comprising the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Special Care Nursery - is uniquely equipped to meet the needs of infants born too early or too small, or who require special care or surgery.
Monmouth opened the Regional Newborn Center in 1968, becoming the first hospital in New Jersey and the first community hospital in the country to establish a newborn intensive care unit. Today, the RNC has the region’s largest state-designated Level III neonatal intensive care unit, offering state-of-the-art technology and world-class expertise, with a staff of neonatologists, neonatal nurses, respiratory therapists and pediatric specialists, available around the clock, providing personalized care by responding to each high-risk infantıs needs in a precisely measured and proficient manner.
They are supported by The Children Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center’s 140-member medical staff, which includes general pediatricians, physicians who represent 26 pediatric specialties and16 resident pediatricians. The busiest and largest unit of its kind in Monmouth and Ocean counties, the RNC treats some 500 high-risk infants each year for such problems as prematurity, low-birth weight, acute illness and congenital disorders, and for those requiring delicate surgery.
The center is a leader in its highly specialized field, attaining an impressive degree of success that is reflected in state statistics that show Monmouth has one of the highest infant survival rates among neonatal ICUs in the country. In fact, it ranks in the top one-third percentile for survival among more than 400 Level III units submitting data to the Vermont/Oxford Network’s international database for benchmarking. Established in 1988, the network is a nonprofit collaboration of health care professionals dedicated to improving the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants.
Recently, the RNC was selected as a Regional Program of Quality for Perinatal Services by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Monmouth was one of 14 hospitals throughout the state recognized for its care to high-risk mothers and newborns.
Additionally, the Children's Emergency Transport Vehicle is an ambulance specially equipped to transport critically ill newborns from outlying community hospitals to Monmouth's neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.
For more information on the Regional Newborn Center at The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, call 1-888-SBHS123, or visit www.saintabarnabas.com.
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