Neonatal Research Institute at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns
ACOG 2018
Experts at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns established the Neonatal Research Institute (NRI) to identify and disseminate the latest evidence-based best practices for newborn care. Sharp Mary Birch is the busiest maternity hospital in California, with a baby born every hour on average.
That volume provides doctors and researchers with a unique opportunity to create a strong research infrastructure that will yield meaningful breakthroughs.
Already, breakthroughs related to cord-blood milking and delayed cord clamping have shown improvements in brain, lung, and heart function for newborns.
Now the NRI is building for the future with a clinic that will track the health outcomes of its patients through childhood, demonstrating the long-term benefits of interventions which can be initiated in the first moments of life.