$2.5M grant for infant care efforts
Published 6:00 am Tuesday, September 22, 2026
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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During a press conference at the new High Street Tower Kosair for Kids announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health in support of a new Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program designed to support the needs of our growing community and its tiniest members. (Joe Imel/Daily News)
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Med Center Health’s infant care services will be bolstered by the receipt of a $2.5 million grant from Kosair for Kids.
The grant, announced Monday at Med Center Health’s High Street Tower, will support a Womb to World Infant and Child Safety Program, which will provide a comprehensive continuum of care for pediatric patients and their families.
“For us to be able to have Kosair for Kids making this type of investment in Med Center Health and in southcentral Kentucky is truly a game changer for this region, and I’m confident we will build upon that in the future,” said Med Center Health executive vice president David Gray.
This grant represents the largest gift given this year by Kosair for Kids, and will fund prenatal and caregiver education services, advanced technology and equipment and specialized staff training.
Gray said that simulator labs funded through the grant will provide crucial training for employees at the High Street Tower and for practitioners in the region who work in infant care.
Opened earlier this year, the five-story High Street Tower is the new home for Med Center Health’s Women and Children’s Services wing, the site for delivery and care of an estimated 3,000 newborns each year, featuring with 12 Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit beds and 4 Level III NICU beds, the only Level III NICU in the region.
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The investments in technology and equipment will help stabilize and provide brain protection to newborns needing intensive care.
“This grant is going to allow Med Center Health to have the best of the best when it comes to medical equipment to take care of fragile newborns,” said Barry Dunn, president and CEO of Kosair for Kids. “The training that’s going to be possible through this grant is going to allow our nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists to be prepared to be able to react … as soon as that newborn needs help, they’re going to be able to immediately implement the steps they’ve learned in training, whether it’s to save a newborn’s life or whether it’s simply to make sure a newborn is resting as comfortably as possible during some pretty challenging times.”
Services paid for through the grant also include education on safe feeding practices and child abuse and neglect prevention strategies in order for families to improve developmental outcomes and reduce preventable complications in high-risk infants.
“There are very many parts of Kentucky where people have to travel an hour for obstetrical services, so we are very blessed to be able to have this service of this level and complexity here in southcentral Kentucky,” Gray said.
