Healthy from the start. Home care for newborns.
With hospital stays for childbirth averaging only 24 to 36 hours, most mothers return home exhausted and with little or no knowledge of potential health problems in their newborns. Two hospital nursery nurses founded a home care agency that provides in-home followup visits and parenting education to decrease the risk of infant illness and smooth the transition from hospital to home.
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Nurses for Newborns, St. Louis, MO.
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