Lily's Place Infant Recovery Center

1. Lily’s Place
Clarissa Perkins

2. What Is Lily’s Place
 Lily’s Place is an Infant Recovery Center.
 They ease drug exposed babies off of the drugs that they have been exposed
to while in the womb.
 Lily’s Place is a nonprofit organization.

3. Drug Addicted Babies
 Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is a group of problems that occur in a
newborn who was exposed to drugs in the womb.
 At birth, babies are still dependent on the drug. Because the baby is no longer
getting the drug after they are born, symptoms of withdrawal can occur.
 Symptoms often begin within 1 to 3 days, but may take up to a week to
appear.

4. Cabell Huntington Hospital
 1 out of every 13 babies born at Cabell Huntington Hospital is addicted to
drugs.
 Drug addicted newborns crowd the NICU and nurseries.
 Babies with symptoms of drug addiction can remain in those facilities for up
to a week.

5. Who Cares
 Doctors, nurses and the community cares.
 Lily’s place was opened because people saw the need for proper care for
these babies and support for their families.
 For Lily’s Place to operate, there has to be a lot of caring and passionate
people.
 The building that Lily’s Place uses was donated.
 People from the community donated their time and money for 2 years to see
this project through

6. Lily’s Place Recovery
 Once symptoms of withdrawal are noticed in a newborn, he or she is then
scored for a variety of behaviors and responses.
 Once diagnosed with NAS, care and treatment begins and the withdrawal
process typically takes 4-6 weeks
 Some babies with severe symptoms need medicines such as methadone and
morphine to treat withdrawal symptoms.
 When the baby is off of medicine for 72 hours, the primary caregivers will be
invited to stay the night and receive 24-48 hours of hands on training in the
care of their baby before going home.

7. Inside Lily’s Place
 Lily’s Place has 16 decorated nurseries.
 Has a home-like setting.

8. Cuddlers
 Lily’s Place has volunteer cuddlers.
 Cuddlers cuddle and soothe the baby. Lily’s place wants the babies to feel as
comfortable as they possibly can.
 Cuddlers have to have training, background checks and drugs test just as if
they were employed there.

9. Fixing The Problem
 Lily’s Place provides counseling and support to the families of these addicted
babies.
 Lily’s Place wants to educate the mothers of the things that they should be
aware of while being pregnant and using drugs.
 Lily’s Place makes sure that the family that these babies are released to know
how to take care of them, and are confident in doing so.

10. The Staff
 Lily’s Place is led by a business manager and clinical coordinator who are
responsible for the day-to-day operations of the facility and a licensed
physician Medical Director overseeing the appropriate clinical care for the
NAS babies.
 Lily’s Place employs a dedicated staff of nurses with specialized training in
the therapeutic care of NAS babies and specially trained patient care
assistants.
 Lily’s Place also has volunteers that come help out in anyway that the facility
needs.

11. Donations
 Donations can be made at 1320 Seventh Avenue Huntington WV using their
bright yellow donation bin.
 Monetary donations can be made by Paypal on the home page of Lily’s Place
web site or by check or money order and mailed to Lily's Place, PO Box 2,
Huntington, WV 25706.
 Size 1 diapers, baby lotion, pacifiers, and paper towels are some examples of
things that can be donated to Lily’s Place.

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