Sentara Princess Anne Hospital Reduces Alarm Interruptions by 54% in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Vocera Solution Helps Create a More Healing and Ideal Working Environment Sentara Princess Anne Hospital (SPAH) was built in 2011 in Southern Virginia Beach. The patient-centered hospital features a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with private and semi-private rooms. This new layout is a departure from the existing NICU design, which accommodated all patients in one large room. In that setting, nurses could see and hear all patient monitor and ventilator alarms at all times. The clinical leadership team knew this new NICU layout would help reduce the spread of infectious diseases and provide more privacy to patients and families. Yet, it would also impose barriers that would make i

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