Relieve the bottleneck at NICUs: Insurers aren’t helping
A woman delivered a baby boy at 30 weeks’ gestation at a Boston hospital. After birth, the infant required a ventilator for 3 days. The family visited every day, traveling over 45 miles each way, for the first 2 weeks of their baby’s life. After her husband went back to work, the mother visited infrequently because she relied on friends and family members to transport her to the hospital as …
