Gina showed extraordinary patient centered care in a recent situation involving a NICU patient and her critically ill mother who arrested during her delivery and was quickly transferred to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. She coded a total of four times, was placed on cooling therapy, intubated, and sedated.

Her infant, born at approximately 36 weeks, was transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The baby was stable and Gina asked his attending physician if they could take him to the SICU to perform Kangaroo Care with his mother. Gina recognized that this skin-to-skin bonding experience would not only be beneficial for the infant but it would be one of the only times the father would see his wife and son together if the mother did not improve.

Gina took the infant to the SICU, provided education to the nursing staff, and initiated Kangaroo Care with the mom and baby. No response was given from mom that evening, but by 6AM the next morning, nurses were able to lessen her blood pressure medication and mom woke up asking for her baby. Two days later, the infant was taken to mom for 90 minutes of Kangaroo care. When they left, mom was extubated! She helped feed the baby, change him and burp him.

By initiating skin-to-skin care, Gina most likely saved this mother's life.