Tyler Hartman and Kate Richards have a goal: Get pre-term babies home sooner. A pioneering innovation effort at Dartmouth Health.
“If you've ever been in a NICU … it's a pretty beepy and loud environment. The room structure, the lighting, the noise, the smells. It doesn't scream bonding … let’s put it that way.” — Tyler Hartman
Kate Richards
Kathryn Richards, APRN, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Dartmouth Health Children’s in the Neonatal High-Risk Follow-Up Clinic. Kathryn’s clinical work focuses on care of the high-risk and medically complex neonate in the home environment. She is the co-investigator for the Hope Grows at Home program, designed to transition the care of the stable neonate from the NICU to the home environment with nasogastric feeding.
Tyler Hartman
Dr. Tyler Hartman, MD, is a neonatologist and director of Dartmouth’s Neonatal High-Risk Follow-Up Clinic and Pediatric Hospital at Home program. He has a particular interest in developing new models of care that enable children to be home with their family instead of being in a hospital. He is the director of the New England Follow-Up Network (NE FUN), the first multistate regional high-risk neonatal follow-up collaborative consisting of 14 tertiary referral NICUs in New England.
Resources:
Paper in BMJ Open Quality
