A Nurse on Rescuing Critically Ill Babies From Hurricane Harvey

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:50:27 -0500

New York Magazine - Around lunchtime on Thursday, the team at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth got the call they’d been preparing for ever since Hurricane Harvey’s massive scale had been announced. A hospital in Corpus Christi needed their help transporting ten critically ill newborns out of the path of the storm.

Debbie Boudreaux, director of the transportation team and a neonatal nurse at Cook Children’s, sprang into action, scrambling to get planes to transport the infants 400 miles north to Fort Worth. (With one exception, their parents would have to drive separately.)

Read the entire story here.

'It's A Miracle': Some Of Harvey's First Evacuees Were Newborns, Flown To Fort Worth

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:44:04 -0500

KERA - Nereyda Rangel sang to her newborn daughter at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi. The building sits only a few blocks from Corpus Christi Bay, which spills into the Texas Gulf Coast. As Hurricane Harvey brewed in the Gulf, Shaddai Jireh Leija fought for her life. Soon, she and other newborns would need more than just medical care. They would need help getting out of there.

Read how Cook Children's Teddy Bear Transport Team answered the call for help and moved the babies out of harm's way.

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A Nurse on Rescuing Critically Ill Babies From Hurricane Harvey

'It's A Miracle': Some Of Harvey's First Evacuees Were Newborns, Flown To Fort Worth