2019 AtlantiCare Foundation Annual Report on Giving

Nichelle Your Support. Funding miracles

Gifts to the NICU will allow the addition of NICView monitoring cameras for each of the 25 newborn cribs giving parents and families instant access to their precious little ones when they require an extended stay after mom is discharged.

Harley Cherry is an active, healthy Galloway Township two-year-old. She knows the alphabet and can count to 20. She loves coloring and music, especially music she can dance to. To see Harley today, you might never imagine how challenging a start she and her mother, Nichelle, experienced. Before her pregnancy came to full term, Nichelle had serious complications, forcing an emergency delivery. Harley was born four months early, weighing less than two pounds. She got a second chance on life at AtlantiCare’s neonatal intensive care unit, where your Foundation dollars help fund miracles, every day. Today, Harley is every bit as energetic and inquisitive as any other toddler. “She’s sassy and bossy. In the hospital, she earned the nickname ‘Little Diva’ and we still call her that,” says Nichelle. “Everyone in the NICU was amazing. They took such good care of Harley and they looked after me and my extended family, too. They treated us all like family. It was hard going home without her when I was discharged, but I knew she was in very good hands. They never stopped rooting for her,” Nichelle recalls. Stronger by the day, Harley went home on her three-month birthday to a joyful family reunion. “Having the NICU team and technology close to home is so reassuring. It’s hope in the midst of crisis,” Nichelle says.

“Having the NICU team and technology close to home is so reassuring. It’s hope in the midst of crisis.”

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