Pharma news

Charlottetown’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital is doing away with its nursery for healthy babies.

Starting Monday, these newborns will be cared for in their mothers’ rooms. One nurse will be assigned to care for both the mother and the baby.

The new program is designed to build parental confidence and to protect the baby from infection, because it reduces the number of people an infant comes in contact with.

Premature babies and others requiring extra care can still be placed in the intermediate nursery or the neonatal intensive care unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

A similar mother-baby model of care has been running for several years at the Prince County Hospital in Summerside.

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