BC Children’s Hospital is part of a new cross-Canada network to ensure a coordinated research response to COVID-19. Supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the platform will enhance collaboration and information-sharing between research teams to fully understand the impacts of COVID-19 and improve the health and wellbeing of children and youth.
Family Integrated Care or FICare (pronounced “fie-care”) is a neonatal care program developed to increase interactions between parents and their preterm babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). FICare reduces maternal stress and improves babies’ motor and behavioural outcomes.
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