The touch of a nurse’s hand calms one of the babies in the new neonatal intensive care unit at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. The 124,000-square-foot, $199.5-million pavilion built after six years of planning and construction will house premature and critically ill babies. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Nurses carefully move 20 babies from the existing neonatal intensive care unit to the new state-of-the-art inpatient pavilion at the hospital. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Everything is calm in the new neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
The foot of one of the premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit is wrapped with a monitor strap. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
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A baby in the new neonatal intensive care unit is illuminated by a bilirubin light. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
