SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – The 39th annual Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Reunion will be held on Sunday, July 22, from 11 p.m. to 2 p.m., on the back lawn near the Emergency Department at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, 3333 RiverBend Drive in Springfield.
This colorful, fun-filled event brings together hundreds of NICU alumni—and their family members--and the staff who cared for them at a critical time in their young lives. It is a time of sharing, reconnecting and taking stock of how far these children have come after a challenging start.
Highlights this year include:
The reunion will take place immediately after the 2018 Race for the Ace 5K, a fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network, a program of the PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation.
Members of the media are welcome to attend. Families of NICU graduates will be available for interviews. Please contact Sherri Buri McDonald at 541-520-8219 or sburimcdonald@peacehealth.org.
About the NICU at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend:
Sacred Heart’s NICU was established in 1977 to provide highly specialized services to premature or sick infants. Since then, the unit has had a significant impact in lowering the infant mortality rate in this area. With 36 private rooms for patient families, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sacred Heart provides Level III care — the highest level of neonatal care — for premature or medically fragile newborns born at Sacred Heart or any of several other hospitals in western and southwestern Oregon.