2024 Children's of Alabama/UAB Annual Report

Philanthropy

NICU

Due to record-breaking patient volumes in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Children’s began work in 2024 on expanding the inpatient space for our tiniest patients. Several community supporters, including individual donors, foundations and corporations, answered the call to help bring this project to life.

More than 400 babies each year rely on the care of the Children’s of Alabama NICU. Our Level IV NICU now has an additional six beds, totaling 54 private rooms for neonates and infants.

“This addition will allow our team to continue to provide family-centered care in private rooms for our smallest patients,” NICU director Jill Jones Smith said. “Our NICU regularly has a waitlist of surgical neonates from referring hospitals that require our services. These extra bassinets will help alleviate wait times and help us get to those patients and families even faster.”

Thanks to generous community support, the Children’s of Alabama NICU continues to serve as a lifeline for Alabama’s youngest patients.

400 + babies rely on the care of the Children’s NICU each year

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