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Our strategic focus 4.6
16 Annual Report 2014
4.6 Our strategy in action
Family-centered care for newborns
In a child’s rst precious weeks of life, every parent knows their family is
the center of the universe. And when that child is sick, medics need every
tool to ensure that family gets the best care.
“Family-centered care is our philosophy, we want to
combine technology with humanization and place the
mother and newborn at the center of this,” says
Professor Fabio Mosca, Director of the Intensive
Neonatal Unit at Italy’s Mangiagalli Hospital.
Instead of his intensive care unit being a place dened
by life and death, it has, thanks to Philips, become a unit
remarkably attuned to the specic rhythms of mother
and baby. The entire unit’s environment has been
adapted specically for two main reasons. First, to
boost the baby’s immune system and, second, to
improve a mother’s chance of breast-feeding
successfully.
This is a great example of the kind of partnership Philips
has perfected – improving people’s lives through using
innovative technologies, skills and know-how
throughout the continuum of care. By sharing the
philosophy of the Family Center Care, the collaboration
ensures the well-being of all the people involved – the
child, the family and the healthcare sta.
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