Our Corporate Sponsors
“Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.”
In the spirit of serving neonatal therapists all over the world, we thank the following NANT 365 Corporate Sponsors for their year-long support, commitment and vision.
We can’t serve the babies in our care without safe, innovative products and services.
Thank you for your ongoing dedication to excellence as we collectively strive to improve quality of life for premature and medically fragile infants everywhere.
Platinum Sponsors
GE Healthcare Maternal-Infant Care
With a shared passion, healthcare providers worldwide rely on GE Healthcare Maternal-Infant Care as their preferred partner to deliver clinically-appropriate, cutting-edge care solutions. Innovative products, exceptional service and clinical education combine to empower healthcare professionals to anticipate, understand and respond to the unique and changing needs of mothers, babies and their families.
For over 50 years, GE Healthcare Maternal-Infant Care has offered advanced technology and innovative designs that help meet the demanding clinical care needs in Labor & Delivery and Neonatal Intensive Care. GE’s products include the Giraffe* and Panda* lines of incubators and warmers, the Corometrics* maternal-fetal monitors, resuscitation and phototherapy systems, and the Carescape* vital signs monitors for neonates.
For more information about our products and services, visit us at www.gehealthcare.com.
Contact Information
Wendy SlateryDirector of Marketing, Maternal Infant Care at GE Healthcare
Wendy.Slatery@med.ge.com
www.gehealthcare.com
Gold Sponsors
Philips Mother & Child Care
Your passion, our commitment
From the hospital to the home, Philips is committed to delivering the next generation of care for mother and child, right from the beginning. We share your passion for doing all you can to provide the best care possible, whatever the course of a new life. And we’re committed to providing you with innovative, clinically proven solutions and a broad range of support. For more than 40 years, Philips has helped caregivers deliver the comprehensive care mothers and babies deserve, whether it’s basic care for a healthy mom or intensive treatment for your most fragile preemie. We recognize that addressing immediate concerns is just as critical as providing long-term developmental well-being. And our innovative, evidence-based solutions are developed to support a baby’s growth, while helping newborns bond with parents and family. In the hospital, Philips breakthrough imaging and monitoring products, developmentally supportive NICU and PICU solutions, and advanced clinical information systems help you plan better, work more efficiently, and make more informed clinical decisions. When it’s time to go home, Philips is there with nursing, feeding, soothing, jaundice management, and monitoring solutions you can use to help mothers, babies and their families get off to a healthy start.
Silver Sponsors
KCBioMedix, Inc.
KCBioMedix, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing products that are used by neonatal healthcare providers to assess and treat the problem of incompetent feeding in the premature infant.
KCBioMedix, Inc.’s first commercially available product is the NTrainer System® which was invented by Steven Barlow, Ph.D., a University of Kansas Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing and Neuroscience, and Don Finan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado. Dr. Barlow is a nationally acknowledged R01 NIH researcher.
The NTrainer System utilizes groundbreaking technology to assess and promote early development and organization of essential sucking skills in premature infants.
The NTrainer System has 2 modes of operation – the Assessment Mode and the Therapy Mode which enables the neonatal caregivers the ability to better manage incompetent feeding in neonates.
The Assessment Mode of the NTrainer System provides standardized, objective, quantitative results with visual and printed reports of the infant’s non-nutritive suck (NNS) organization. NNS is an essential neurological building block in an infant’s coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing – a capability required for independent oral feeding and the development of a healthy baby.
The Therapy Mode of the NTrainer System provides a clinically proven ororhythmic stimulation therapy which studies have proven effectively accelerates NNS development and oral feeding success in preterm infants who are at risk for oromotor dysfunction.
The NTrainer System promotes developmental care by enabling clinicians and parents to administer valuable therapy during gavage feeding (as well as before breast or bottle feeding) while providing the attention and care infants would normally receive with oral feeding.
Contact Information
Barry PriceDirector Marketing & Business Development
KC Biomedix
bprice@kcbiomedix.com
www.kcbiomedix.com/
2nd Annual NANT Conference
Launching Best Practice for Neonatal Therapy
JOIN US for the next chapter of this journey – a unique and specialized group of therapists and caregivers serving the most fragile patients. We know you love what you do. Be part of the Second Annual NANT Conference and feel the support of hundreds of people just like you!
The National Association of Neonatal Therapists (NANT) is a network created specifically for neonatal occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists. NANT provides multiple ways for neonatal therapists to connect, learn, mentor and inspire while advancing this focused field of therapy on a national level.
NANT News
NANT Professional Support Network – Are You Part of the Circle?
As I said above, one of your fellow NANT members recently spent quite a bit of time on our Members Only Professional Support Network. She found she was able to give and receive important information to other members.
We can all save each other loads of time and energy by providing answers and asking important questions. There’s SO much knowledge in this group – you blow me away.
One particular time-saving feature I wanted to point out is this: if you want to keep up with a particular topic, but don’t want to check back every single day, just subscribe to that topic and you’ll receive an email notice when someone has added a comment to that topic.
Here’s a screenshot of where that subscribe icon is:
Subscribing to that topic will allow you real time updates regarding your most recent topic of interest. If you have any questions on how to subscribe to a topic, please email us at info@neonataltherapists.com.
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One Question for the Neonatal Therapist
The question I ask myself as I leave the NICU each day is this: “If everyone in the NICU interacted with babies, parents, and co-workers like I did today, would this be a better unit or a worse one?” And …