WHAT IS PROJECT: NEW BORN?
PROJECT: NEW BORN was the dream of Schatzi and Stanley Kassal of Miami. They created this organization which has raised $17 million (and counting) since its founding in 1973 to support neonatal research and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for infants at risk.
Today, The Schatzi and Stanley Kassal Project: New Born NICU of the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center continues to be that dream come true. Located in the Holtz Children’s Hospital at Jackson, it is a renowned facility for imperiled premature and high-risk newborn infants whose problems are too complex to be managed at other institutions.
WHAT SETS THE SCHATZI AND STANLEY KASSAL PROJECT: NEW BORN NICU APART?
- Our Neonatology Unit is one of the largest level IV NICU’S in the U.S. with 126 beds, 66 of which are ICU beds.
- Our NICU has been ranked among the top 50 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
- Our survival rate is amongst the highest and our complication rate is amongst the lowest of major NICU’S around the world.
- Our UM Neonatal Faculty are national leaders in clinical research.
- We provide an outstanding “Parenting Your Preemie” program.
- We are the only University-based neonatal intensive care program in South Florida.
- We have endowed the Distinguished Project New Born Chair in Neonatology at the University of Miami in honor of it’s director Dr. Eduardo Bancalari.
- The Neonatal Division has organized the annual Miami International Neonatology Conference for 40 years attracting 1000 yearly participants from more than 50 countries.
- We are proud that several of our neonatal researchers have been recipients of the Micah Batchelor Award for Excellence in Children’s Health Research.
