IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS:

1. CNICC Entrance: Entrance to the Center for Newborn and Infant Critical Care (CNICC) on 3 West at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. There are 5 main rooms with babies, plus 4 isolation rooms.

2. Transport: The CHLA transport team is very active, bringing sick babies into the CNICC and returning them to other hospitals after special care at CHLA is provided, and the babies' healing process can continue elsewhere.

3. CNICC Front Desk: This area is important to get information about patients.

4. Washing Up: Everyone is required to do a thorough cleaning of hands and arms to the elbows. Many sick babies together, whose ability to fight infections is reduced, means there is always a high risk to get a serious infection. Thus, washing is very important to assure that sick babies don't get even sicker.

5. Patient Care in Room 330: Sick babies require lots of support from the specialized staff and equipment needed in the process of healing.

6. Patient Care in Room 333: This is a second room where some of the sickest babies are located, as is the case with Room 330.

7. Patient Care in Room 326: This smaller room has babies who are often in the process of recovering from their illness.

8. Patient Care in Room 327: This room is similar to 326 above. There is also a Room 303 and 4 isolation rooms, not shown.

9. Dr. Ram on Rounds: Patient rounds involve reviewing the babies' condition at the bedside, with the attending neonatologist, residents and fellows, neonatal nurses, respiratory therapists, social workers, nutritionists and pharmacists--not all of whom are present at the bedside during rounds.

10. Neonatal Nurse with Baby: Sick babies and premature babies often are unable to nipple, and thus may receive nutrition with a feeding tube in the stomach. Here, the nurse is able to nipple the baby, and she is very skilled and experienced in teaching the baby how to do this when the patient is having difficulty.

11. Occupational Therapist with Baby: Consulting a specialist in infant feeding is also a good option to be able to document the problems a baby may be having with feeding, and to track the baby's progress over time.

11. Parent with Baby: Mom with baby, a preterm infant who was very sick for a long time, now much improved, learning to nipple.