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Immediate, prolonged, skin-to-skin care.

What if that was the new normal in preterm infant and mother care?

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THE PROBLEM
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Preterm Infants and Parents:
A Global Challenge

THE CLINICAL BURDEN

Premature birth is the leading cause of pediatric death and disability worldwide.

 

Preterm mothers are at higher risk for physiological complications and higher rates of anxiety, stress, and postpartum depression.

 

THE FINANCIAL COST

Complications related to prematurity cost health systems worldwide billions of dollars annually. In the US alone, the burden of prematurity is estimated to be over USD 26 billion/per year.

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SSC Helps

Immediate, prolonged, skin-to-skin care
can make a real difference.

 Skin-to-skin care is a life-saving intervention, clinically proven in over 30 years of extensive research from around the world.

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Reduce morbidity and mortality for infants and mothers

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Improve short- and long-term outcomes 

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Significantly cost-saving for health system

The World Health Organization recommends it.

  • Perform immediately (within the first 24h), 

  • For prolonged periods of time (8+ hours/day),

  • For every preterm infant and their parents.

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But, there are multiple challenges and barriers.

Through thousands of hours of experience and R&D, our team has documented the multiple barriers parents, nurses, doctors, and health systems face in enabling immediate, prolonged, skin-to-skin care.

So far, we've counted over 120 barriers...

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Infant Barriers

High levels of humidity, need for minimal handling, concerns of line and tube dislodgement are just some of the concerns regarding infant clinical management.

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Parent Barriers

Parents experience a large number of barriers, including operational, emotional, and physiological barriers. Though they vary by family, all experience some combination.

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Provider Barriers

Doctors and nurses require access to the infant, to see how they are doing, have safety concerns, and multiple tasks to handle while promoting skin-to-skin care.

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Health System Barriers

Clinical and administrative protocols, inability to accurately track the intervention, reimbursement - all play into a health system's ability to enable skin-to-skin care.

MISSION

And that's what we're trying to change.

Our connected-care paradigm

Our Solution:

TECHNOLOGY FOR A CONNECTED CARE PARADIGM

SOLUTION

Our Solutions

We are revolutionizing neonatal care with a series of technologies built around connection instead of separation.

Enhanced Skin-to-skin Care Infrastructure

Parent and Provider Engagement

Advanced Intervention Management & Analysis

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