Health & Fitness

New Lenox's Silver Cross Hospital Provides Will County's First NICU

"Now we can do surgery that we weren't able to do before," said Silver Cross NICU medical director Dr. Corryn Greenwood.

The new unit is staffed with neonatal experts and equipped for all sorts of care.
The new unit is staffed with neonatal experts and equipped for all sorts of care. (CBS)

NEW LENOX (CBS) — More than 6,800 babies were born in Will County in 2020. But any of those infants needing intensive care were not treated close by.

The sick newborns had to be moved to other hospitals miles and miles away. That's not the case anymore.

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