Family Integrated Solutions
Parents and healthcare providers building nurturing environments for all young children.
Evidence-based healthcare quality management solutions
Our Solutions:
MergeTM NICU– Improve the quality of care delivered in your hospital NICU.
- Our goal is to integrate families directly into the healthcare team of their critically ill infant.
- Healthcare providers and parents are educated using tools backed by over 20 years of clinical and scientific experience.
- Liminality provides support and direction to meet your unit’s care delivery goals.
- Can be delivered to individual health providers or unit wide.
Using the MergeTM approach, the average length of stay in the NICU has been reduced by 1/2 a day, enabling babies to go home sooner.
In the first week after leaving hospital, ED visits have dropped 26%, and hospital readmissions are down 37% for former NICU patients.
It’s estimated the reductions in NICU length of stay have saved the health system about $1.2 million over a two-year period.
https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887-020-02438-
Upstart Parent Surveys – Evaluate Prevention-Focused Parenting Programs
Evidence Based
Over 20 years of clinical and scientific experience.
Quality Improvement
Standardized implementation makes the results sustainable.
Education
For hospitals, healthcare providers, and families.
Award winning
Health Quality Council of Alberta, Patient Experience Award, for Alberta Family Integrated Care
June 2023
ASTech Award Winner 2024 – Outstanding Social Innovation/Educational Technologies – Research Collaboration
Photo Credit: ASTech Awards
We know what works!
Liminality is built on over 20 years of clinical and scientific experience in health and social service systems.
Find out what partnering with Liminality can do for you
Liminality works with you to implement large scale quality improvement initiatives because we provide the training and support. Our approach supports health and social service systems to simultaneously improve outcomes and increase sustainability.
Continuing professional development to integrate families into neonatal care teams.
Standardized implementation processes make quality improvement easy and sustainable.
To learn more about the benefits of Merge™ for health systems, download this peer-reviewed paper.
What People are Saying About Us
“Having a baby in the NICU can be a stressful experience for parents and learning to care for a preterm baby both in the hospital and at home requires extensive support over time during the hospitalization”
– Dr. Deborah McNeil, Faculty of Nursing and Department of Community Health Sciences Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary
“If family integrated care didn’t exist, this experience would be 10 times harder,” says Franz. “Being able to care for my baby in the NICU helps normalize the experience. I can still make decisions and do something as simple as diaper changes, and we are constantly reminded that we are an important part of our child’s care.”
– Kyrsten Franz, mother of Theodore (born at 27 weeks)
“It’s overwhelming to be introduced to a large multidisciplinary team. Parents play an integral role in the care of their baby; it’s important they have a voice in their care and that the teams value and respect their unique knowledge about their baby.”
– Karen Benzies; CEO & Founder Liminality Innovations