In January 2016, Boston Medical Center (BMC) opened its new Women and Infants Center in Boston. Part of the hospital’s clinical campus redesign, the 48,000-square-foot Women and Infants Center and Ullian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) features a concept called “couplet care,” which promotes mothers and newborns rooming together for their hospital stay. The facility also brings together physicians of different specialties into one center, providing the ability to better manage any clinical situation that could arise as well as address the specific needs of family and infant.
The commitment to high quality and integrated care delivery, a BMC philosophy, also extends to the security of mothers and their children, and as such, the design-build of the facility included the installation of a technologically advanced, wireless Real-Time Location System (RTLS) from STANLEY Healthcare called the Hugs Infant Protection Solution. The Hugs system was installed by systems integration firm Advance Technology, Scarborough, Maine, as a collaborative effort between STANLEY Healthcare, the BMC Department of Public Safety, IT department, hospital personnel and other stakeholders and contractors.