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NEWS RELEASE
| 2007
NEWS |
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For
information, call:
Jane Dreher, Public Relations Director
(909) 335-5566 |
New Moms get a Special Gift for Mother’s Day at Redlands Community
Hospital:
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A Lasting Impression from their Newborns
Redlands Community Hospital
| REDLANDS, CA - She
may not be able to take her newborn baby home on Mother’s Day, but
thanks to the nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Redlands
Community Hospital, Amanda Moore will take home a clay imprint of
her baby Emily’s hands and feet to cherish until the day her baby is
ready to come home. Nurses throughout the Maternal/Child Unit at the
hospital, including Postpartum and NICU, have prepared a
special gift package for the newborn babies to give their moms on
Mother’s Day, May 13. The maternity nurses estimate there
could be 32 newborn babies in the hospital on Sunday. |
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receive a keepsake gift, which includes a kit to make a clay
impression of her newborn’s hands and/or feet. The "Precious
Imprint" kits will create a lasting memento of this special Mother’s
Day. |
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| In addition,
the nurses have created hand-made Mother’s Day cards with the baby’s
photograph. They laminated the cards and added ribbons and bows to
the gift set. |
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| "We wanted
our mothers to receive a keepsake from their newborns on this
special day in our hospital," said Pam Erickson, Director of
Maternal/Child Services at Redlands Community Hospital. "We have the
gift packages prepared for our NICU babies and other gift sets are
awaiting the new babies yet to be born on Sunday." |
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| The
Maternal/Child Department is anxiously awaiting the completion of
the hospital’s new building that will become the new home for their
department. The building will be completed in the next 30 days.
After licensure, it is anticipated that patients will start using
the new building by late summer or early fall 2007. The three-story
building will include both Surgery Services and Maternity Services. |
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| Redlands
Community Hospital is located at 350 Terracina Boulevard in
Redlands. For information, please call (909) 335-5500. |
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Jennifer Samson, RN (left), helps
new mother Amanda Moore make an impression of baby Emily’s
foot in the clay impression kit. |
Currently weighing only 2 lbs., 13
oz., all of Emily’s tiny hands and feet could fit into the
molding kit.
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