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                                    • Grant Funds Provide Therapeutic Aid for NICU Babies

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                                      |Date: September 06, 2017
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                                      Grant Funds Provide Therapeutic Aid for NICU Babies

                                      Grant Funds Provide Therapeutic Aid for NICU Babies

                                      Watching your new baby cry or sleep fitfully can be hard in the best of times, and for parents with a bab ...

                                      Watching your new baby cry or sleep fitfully can be hard in the best of times, and for parents with a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), it can be overwhelming. For infants in the NICU, ...

                                      September 06, 2017
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                                    • Valley’s Midwives Clinic – Celebrating a Decade of Deliveries

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                                      Valley’s Midwives Clinic – Celebrating a Decade of Deliveries

                                      Valley’s Midwives Clinic – Celebrating a Decade of Deliveries

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                                      September 13, 2016
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                                    • A Decade of Deliveries at the Midwives Clinic

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                                      A Decade of Deliveries at the Midwives Clinic

                                      A Decade of Deliveries at the Midwives Clinic

                                      Childbirth is hard work so it’s rather fitting that on Labor Day, ten years ago, Valley Medical Center’s ...

                                      Childbirth is hard work so it’s rather fitting that on Labor Day, ten years ago, Valley Medical Center’s Midwives Clinic first opened its doors, joining the hospital’s array of existing obstetric serv ...

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                                    • Welcome Birth Center Residents!

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                                      Welcome Birth Center Residents!

                                      Welcome Birth Center Residents!

                                      We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new Birth Center resident nurses Nicole McCartney, Karin Rottma ...

                                      We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new Birth Center resident nurses Nicole McCartney, Karin Rottman, Jeunesse Calsado, and Lauren Perala (pictured, left to right). These ladies are all licensed ...

                                      September 01, 2016
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                                    • Do All Babies and Toddlers Benefit from Being Read to?

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                                      Do All Babies and Toddlers Benefit from Being Read to?

                                      Do All Babies and Toddlers Benefit from Being Read to?

                                      Important brain development continues from birth through the age of 3 years. This is a great window of op ...

                                      Important brain development continues from birth through the age of 3 years. This is a great window of opportunity for parents and caregivers to expose infants and toddlers to early language enrichmen ...

                                      March 14, 2016
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