Teixeira-Poit Receives NIH Grant To Study Impact of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Design
By Jackie Torok Stephanie Teixeira-Poit, Ph.D., associate professor at the John R. and Kathy R. Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has received a $568,960 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, “Identifying and Mitigating Health Disparities Following a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Design Change from Open-Bay to Single-Family Rooms.” Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are critical to providing high-quality care and ensuring optimal health outcomes for sick and premature newborns. Although NICUs began as open bays with many babies admitted to large rooms of variable size, a growing trend in NICU design is single-family rooms