Friends of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program

04/22/2025

07/16/2024

Meet Dr. DonnaMaria Cortezzo, a neonatologist and hospice/palliative medicine physician at Connecticut Children’s. She leads in the NICU and Fetal Care Center, focusing on complex neonatal conditions, pain management, and perinatal palliative care. 👶🏼❤️

Dr. Cortezzo counsels families on complex prenatal diagnoses, collaborating with specialists to create personalized care plans. She’s also a certified Vital Talk facilitator, teaching providers essential communication skills. Her research aims to improve outcomes for neonates with complex diagnoses. 📚🩺. 2024 Next Level Perinatal Palliative Care Training Course Registration is Open: September 18-20, 2024. 🗓️

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07/14/2024

🌟 Last Call: Scholarship Opportunity! 🌟

Attention all healthcare professionals! The deadline for the 2024 Next Level Perinatal Palliative Care Training Course scholarship application is fast approaching. This CNE and CME accredited course, scheduled from September 18-20, 2024, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is a must-attend event for advancing your skills and expertise in perinatal palliative care.

🗓️ **DUE TODAY!: Deadline is July 14, 11:59 PM** ⏰

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from leading experts and elevate your career. Apply now and take the next step in providing compassionate, specialized care to families in need. 💖

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For more info, visit our website at pedsneocomfortcare@cumc.columbia.edu.

07/13/2024

🌟 Last Call: Scholarship Opportunity! 🌟

Attention all healthcare professionals! The deadline for the 2024 Next Level Perinatal Palliative Care Training Course scholarship application is fast approaching. This CNE and CME accredited course, scheduled from September 18-20, 2024, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is a must-attend event for advancing your skills and expertise in perinatal palliative care.

🗓️ **2-Day Countdown: Deadline is July 14, 11:59 PM** ⏰

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from leading experts and elevate your career. Apply now and take the next step in providing compassionate, specialized care to families in need. 💖

🔗https://web.cvent.com/event/1665f6b1-ec05-4127-a214-cd45b62ffe37/websitePage:41ae4618-9784-414e-a754-860ba1ba2dd4

For more info, visit our website at pedsneocomfortcare@cumc.columbia.edu.

07/08/2024

🌟 **Last Call: Scholarship Opportunity! 🌟**

Attention all healthcare professionals! The deadline for the 2024 Next Level Perinatal Palliative Care Training Course scholarship application is fast approaching. This CNE and CME accredited course, scheduled from September 18-20, 2024, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is a must-attend event for advancing your skills and expertise in perinatal palliative care.

🗓️ **7-Day Countdown: Deadline is July 14, 11:59 PM** ⏰

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from leading experts and elevate your career. Apply now and take the next step in providing compassionate, specialized care to families in need. 💖

🔗 https://web.cvent.com/event/1665f6b1-ec05-4127-a214-cd45b62ffe37/websitePage:41ae4618-9784-414e-a754-860ba1ba2dd4

07/02/2024

Meet Dr. Sinead Brady, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center! 🌟 Dr. Brady, a graduate of SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, completed her Pediatric residency and Neonatal fellowship at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

As an attending neonatologist, she splits her time between the General and Cardiac Neonatal ICUs. Her research focuses on point-of-care ultrasound and targeted neonatal echocardiography. Dr. Brady joined the Neonatal Comfort Care Program to provide holistic care that supports both patients and their families throughout the perinatal journey.

2024 Next Level Perinatal Palliative Care Training Course
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For more info, visit our website at pedsneocomfortcare@cumc.columbia.edu

06/18/2024

Become familiar with compassionate and comprehensive medical and nursing care for babies with expected short life at the 3-day Training course in Perinatal Palliative Care at Columbia University! 🏥 Enhance your skills and knowledge in perinatal palliative care while earning CME and CNE credits. 📚 Scholarships are available for both domestic and international nurses and physicians, making this invaluable opportunity accessible to healthcare professionals around the globe. 🌍 Join us in providing the highest standard of compassionate care to our more vulnerable patients with expected short life. 👶REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO.⬆️

06/03/2024

✨ 2024 Next-Level Perinatal Palliative Care ✨

🗓️ **LIVE Training Course** 🗓️
**September 18-20, 2024**
📍 **Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NYC**
(Registration Link in Bio)

👶 Perinatal palliative care enhances the quality of life for infants with life-limiting conditions. This course is for all perinatal professionals aiming to improve their practice.

Course Highlights:
- Evidence-based strategies
- Family support
- Comfort for newborns

📚 **CME accredited & CNE credits requested** 📚

🌟 Join us to make a difference! 🌟

12/29/2022

Day 5 of our Year in Growth goes to our families🤍

We have been privileged to reach so many families this year… a 35% increase from 2021. Each family has touched us uniquely. To be a part of their stories is a gift that we never take for granted.

We are committed to caring. Caring for families and their babies through pregnancy, delivery & beyond. Ensuring that we walk alongside them— every family will know they have the support of the Neonatal Comfort Care Team.
This commitment will continue long past 2022, 2023 and beyond!

12/21/2022

Day 3 of our Year in Growth is for celebrating! Our beloved Nurse Fran McCarthy received the 2023 Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award and we couldn’t be more proud to have such an amazing nurse on our team!

This award honors a pediatric provider who provides exceptional family-centered care in circumstances of serious illness. It highlights Fran’s compassion, empathy and commitment to families facing illness and loss.

For many families whose babies were born still, lived for a short time or only lived in the NICU… Fran has been by their sides, held their hands, cried with them, and attended their funerals. Fran’s presence is like a warm embrace. When caring for any baby whose life may be short or hasn’t yet begun, one can only hope that a nurse like Fran will be there for them.

We are so proud and unbelievably excited for you Fran! We know how much you deserve this honor💙

09/16/2022

BIG Friday mood for part 2 of “The Secret Life or NICU Babies”

Escape plan!! Our mischievous little NICU babies are ready for the weekend 🙌🏽 so they’re finally going to make a break for it! Although, at first they didn’t realize that hospital windows don’t open (oops), they quickly found another way to sneak out. No sleepy friends and definitely no snacks left behind!! See you all on the outside! 👋🏽

We know that life in the NICU comes with a lot of mixed emotions— especially love and fear. So we take any chance we can get to just laugh a little and continue on through the some of those really tough times. Thank you NICU nurses for your continued dedication to our special babies💝 (even if they want to escape)

07/13/2022

Scholarships are available for nurses, medical trainees and allied health professionals across the 🌎!!

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Join us as we share our 15-year experience in Perinatal Palliative Care this September!