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How NICUs are implementing family-centered care and skin-to-skin care in the NICU

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The available signals point toward family-centered care in the NICU moving from a values-based idea to a more scalable, measurable, and institutionalized practice.
Early evidence points to NICU skin-to-skin care expanding beyond the usual frame, with guidelines now explicitly including intubated infants under defined transfer and tolerance criteria.
A recurring pattern is emerging: NICU family-centered care is being supported by repeatable implementation infrastructure rather than one-off local effort.
Discussion increasingly centers around broader care teams, with family-centered NICU care supported by expanded multidisciplinary roles.
The evidence is still thin on exact uptake, but the direction is clear: NICU family-centered care and skin-to-skin care are becoming more formalized.

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