Learn More

• Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) Why it Matters / Benefits - Infographic
• Alberta FICare received the 2023 Health Quality Council of Alberta Patient Experience Award.
• View Alberta Family Integrated Care for more information.

Alberta NICUs

Contact information and services at Alberta neonatal intensive care units (NICUs):

• Alberta Children’s Hospital NICU
• Chinook Regional Hospital NICU
• Foothills Medical Centre NICU
• Grande Prairie Regional Hospital NICU
• Grey Nuns Community Hospital NICU
• Medicine Hat Regional Hospital NICU
• Misericordia Community Hospital NICU
• Peter Lougheed Centre NICU
• Royal Alexandra Hospital Philip C. Etches NICU
• Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre NICU
• Rockyview General Hospital NICU
• South Health Campus NICU
• Stollery Children’s Hospital David Schiff NICU
• Sturgeon Community Hospital NICU

Publications

Helping to advance knowledge on family integrated care in NICUs by sharing results of research and quality improvement initiatives.

Sharing these studies supports understanding of how Alberta FICare improves clinical care, neonatal outcomes, the experience of families with a baby in the NICU, and health system performance.

• Creating Value Through Learning Health Systems: The Alberta Strategic Clinical Network Experience (2022) 
• Alberta Family Integrated Care and Standard Care: A qualitative study of mothers’ experiences of their journeying to home form the neonatal intensive care unit (2022)
• Effects of Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) on preterm infant development: Two studies at 2 months and between 6 and 24 months corrected age (2022)
• The work of mothering in the NICU: A critical analysis of Alberta Family Integrated Care parent journals (2022)
• Effectiveness of Alberta FICare on neonatal outcomes: A cluster randomized controlled trial (2022)
• Alberta FICare: From engaged clinicians in a cluster randomized controlled trial to health system partnership in scale and spread across a province (2021; see casebook volume 4, p. 16–19)
• Facilitators and barriers to implementation of Alberta FICare in level II neonatal intensive care units (2021)
• Effectiveness of Alberta FICare on infant length of stay in level II neonatal intensive care units: A cluster randomized controlled trial (2020)
• Does breastfeeding self-efficacy theory apply to mothers of moderate and late preterm infants? A qualitative exploration (2020)

Parent Resources

MyHealth.Alberta.ca

Quick links to NICU information & resources:

• Blood transfusions for newborns
• Breathing support in the NICU
• Communicating with NICU staff
• Discharge from the NICU
• Equipment in the NICU
• Infant care in the NICU
• Kangaroo care
• Oral feeding your preterm newborn or infant with feeding challenges
• Premature birth
• Staff in the NICU
• Tests in the NICU
• The NICU environment
• Umbilical venous catheters in newborns
• What to expect when you have an extremely premature infant

Learn More

• Healthy Parents, Healthy Children (HPHC)
  A guide to pregnancy and parenting through the first five years.
  • If Your Baby is Born Preterm
• Canadian Premature Babies Foundation
  Education, support and advocacy for premature babies and their families.

Quick Reference

Parenting in the NICU: How to be involved as a member of your baby's care team A practical guide on how you can partner with your baby's healthcare team in the NICU.

Family Integrated Bedside Rounds in NICU (overview)
Bedside rounds is when parents and members of your baby’s healthcare team get together to discuss your baby’s journey and plan care. Parents are welcome at rounds.

Parents are welcome at rounds. Watch this video and download the overview to help you know what to expect.

Contact

Email childrenshealth@acutecarealberta.ca