Hoping for improved outcomes, Texas hospital aligns staffing for developmentally supportive care.
Take better care of fragile babies with a staff structure that encourages bonding. Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has been making big efforts to provide developmentally supportive care for babies since 1996. Still, neither staff nor physicians thought nurses knew their tiny charges well enough. Texas Children's hopes a new staffing structure will change all that. Discover the details.
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