While the newborn is in the NICU, AMAXX’s multidisciplinary team of care coordinators work collaboratively with the NICU care team to provide the following:
- Support for the family
- Identification and preparation of in-home caregivers
- Daily hospital rounds to assess any opportunity to further
support the family
- Environmental assessments of homes prior to discharge
- Collaboration with NICU staff on treatment plans
- Assistance with the education, identification and selection
of a “Medical Home”
- Follow-up to ensure compliance (Home visitation programs
and telephone follow-up)
- Parental counseling and crisis intervention
- Assistance with screening criteria for early intervention
programs
- Advocacy and emotional support for the family
- Promotion of mother’s breast milk use in the NICU and
afterwards
- Kangaroo care/ NIDCAP for neuro development.
Care coordination and psychosocial support continues through the infants first year of life. The level and intensity of care depends upon severity of the infant’s medical condition and the intensity of the psychosocial issues affecting the parents/caregivers.