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2016,
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and Inpatient Rehab
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Jyutika
Zope
and
Family Medicine Resident Graduates Therapist
Physical
on William Hunt have
breat been working with
he ata full-term and
bette premature babies at
r in l SRMC. Their work is
his aided by upgrades
made in 2017 to the
the
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p. unit, which can care
for babies born up to
rap 10 weeks early.

work y “Not a lot of therapists
in the go into the NICU,”
highly
special Hunt said. “It requires
additional training and
ized mentorship, and
enviro
nment because it’s so
specialized, it can be
of the hard to find people to
Neona
tal mentor you in this
Intensi area. We conduct
evaluations,
develop
ve
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Unit as they gress to go
home, we integrate the
(NICU SeHe
). Since family into that plan.”
2016, alth
Occup
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Thera
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and
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nt
Rehab walk-
Service
s in
Coordi
nator
Jyutika clin
Zope
and
Physic
al
Thera
pist
Willia
m
Hunt
have
been
workin
g with
full-
term
and
premat
ure
babies
at
SRMC.
Their
work is
aided
by
upgrad
es
made
in
2017
to the
unit,
which
can
care
for
babies
born
up to
10
weeks
early.

“Not a
lot of
therapi
sts go
into
the
NICU,
” Hunt
said.
“It
require
s
additio
nal
trainin
g and
mentor
ship,
and
becaus
e it’s so
special
ized, it
can be
hard
to find
people
to
mentor
you in
this
area.
We
conduc
t
evalua
tions,
develo
p
treatm
ent
plans,
and as
they
progre
ss to go
home,
we
integra
te the
family
into
that
plan.”

Kayla
White,
of
Lumbe
rton, is
a nurse
at
SRMC
who is
also a
parent
of a
child
who
went
throug
h the
NICU.
Her
son,
Harris
on,
who
turns 1
this
weeken
d, was
born
six
weeks
early
but is
now
thrivin
g.