{"id":503162,"date":"2026-06-16T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503162\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:24:12","slug":"albany-med-nicu-reunion-brings-families-back-to-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503162\/","title":{"rendered":"Albany Med NICU reunion brings families back to caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Albany Medical Center NICU patients reunite with caregivers at event.<\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- Families reunited with Albany Medical Center NICU caregivers this weekend at a celebration for former patients and their recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Former patients from the NICU at Albany Med spent the day with caregivers from the Bernard and Millie Duker Children\u2019s Hospital. They met at the Italian Community Center Center in Albany for games and food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan, once you\u2019re discharged from the NICU, is to not see them again in the hospital setting,\u201d said Division Chief, NICU at Albany Med, Meredith Monaco-Brown. \u201cSo it\u2019s always great when it\u2019s a fun day and a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the third year Albany Med has reunited former patients and caregivers. Organizers said the event has continued to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/italian-community-center\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italian Community Center<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/bernard-and-millie-duker-childrens-hospital\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bernard and Millie Duker Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/albany-medical-center\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albany Medical Center<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/albany\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albany<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Albany Medical Center NICU patients reunite with caregivers at event. ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- Families reunited with Albany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[133733,215169,215168,103,397,396,61,60,215167],"class_list":["post-503162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-albany","tag-albany-medical-center","tag-bernard-and-millie-duker-childrens-hospital","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-italian-community-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}