Former NICU patients and doctors reunite at Mount Sinai in Miami Beach

A party was held at a South Florida hospital to reunite former young patients with those who cared for them in their earliest days. Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach held its annual Preemie Party to bring together once-premature babies and the NICU doctors and nurses. It s awesome to see parents, kids, now some of them grown up, and some of them have even been in medical school and are physicians already, so this is a celebration of life, said Tony Adams, Chief of NICU at Mount Sinai. Doctor Ignacio Zabaleta recalled how the now-grown-up former patients were born with a slew of issues that doctors worked hard to resolve. A lot of these had life-threatening problems and took a lot of work to get them to survive and to see them healthy, grown up, the parents happy with the outcome, it s wonderful for us, it makes everything we do worthwhile, said Zabaleta. The joyful event featured face painting and a sing-along to celebrate families and the medical team. Pa