Brenner Children's Hospital at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said yesterday that it has formed a partnership with health agencies throughout North Carolina to provide a shaken-baby-syndrome-prevention program to parents and caregivers.
The program, called Keeping Babies Safe in North Carolina, is collaboration between the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and the Center for Child and Family Health.
The goal is reducing the syndrome in the state by 50 percent over five years.
Officials said that it represents the largest and most comprehensive intervention for the syndrome in the country.
Nurses and staff members in the neonatal intensive- and intermediate-care nurseries at Brenner are sharing the program materials and message with parents of all babies before discharge.
Nationally, between 1,200 and 1,400 children a year are treated after being shaken. It is estimated that 25 percent of those children die; 80 percent of survivors are left with some form of lifelong brain injury.
The program has received about $7 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Duke Endowment.
Email
Facebook
Google
Twitter
Favorites
More
Advertisement