Hudson Cradle Infant Home 2005 Annual Report

A total of 20 infants received full nurturing residential services in 2005. Sixty percent of the babies were boys. Fifty-five percent of the infants were African-American. Thirty percent were percent were White. Fifteen percent were biracial. Thirty percent were Hispanic.

Sixty-five percent of the children came directly to Hudson Cradle from Jersey City Medical Center. Thirty percent of the children came from other hospitals through-out Northern New Jersey and five percent from community-based settings (foster home/relative home).

Babies had health conditions such as prematurity, HIV exposure, prenatal drug exposure, hypertonicity, anemia, infantile asthma, hernia, traumatic brain injury, developmental delay, feeding difficulties, and heart defect.

Hudson Cradle had an 86 percent level of occupancy in 2005.

Babies attended 197 health-related appointments. The babies also received early intervention, physical therapy services, music therapy, infant education, and pediatrician/pediatric nurse practitioner services on-site.

Supervised visitation was provided on 750 occasions. Twenty-six case plan/family team meetings took place.

Volunteers provided in excess of 3021 infant care hours this year.

Staff completed inservice on infant mental health, emergency procedures and evacuation, fire drill, designing activities for infants, SIDS, infant behavior/discipline, CPR/first aid, HIV/AIDS, child abuse/neglect, alcohol abuse and children, social/cognitive/emotional infant development, and drugs and pregnancy.