An Overland Park volunteer was honored for holding more than 540 NICU babies
Terry Berggren holds babies in Overland Park Regional Hospital's Warm Arms program when families cannot be there. The hospital gave him its Humanitarian Award.
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Terry Berggren volunteers in the Warm Arms program at Overland Park Regional Hospital, holding babies in the neonatal intensive care unit when their families cannot be there. KAKE reported on Oct. 12, in a story from KSHB, that he has held more than 540 babies and that the hospital gave him its Humanitarian Award.
A neonatologist at the hospital told the station that human touch can steady a baby's vital signs and lower how much oxygen the baby needs. Berggren described the work as being the person who can comfort a child. The award recognizes that time beside an incubator, not a single rescue.
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