Angel Eye is the only camera system created specifically for use by families of babies in a neonatal intensive care unit, and Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento’s NICU is the first unit in Northern California to install the Angel Eye cameras.

Tennile Hooper spends hours in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sutter Memorial Hospital every day going back and forth between her twin sons born nearly four months premature.

She’s worried, tired and torn every time she has to go home and leave her babies.

“It’s unnatural to go home without your babies,” she said.

For three weeks she’s been looking forward to the day she could take them home. Monday night, for the first time, she did – in a way.

Hooper’s was one of two families who got to try out cameras just installed by Sutter.

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The Mother Infant Center in WellSpan York Hospital houses the NICU, which just went live with new Angel Eye cameras on September 11, 2018. They allow parents to view their babies 24/7 through a constant live-stream. A little monitor next to the baby shows when the Angel Eye camera is live-streaming.

Cameras in neonatal intensive care units are helping some families check on their babies progress from afar.

The technology has been around for a while and is becoming increasingly popular. This week, York Hospital got added to the list of Midstate medical centers that offer the service. 

It hasn't been an easy road for Felicity Gettys and her newborn

"I see my daughter's head just shaking back and forth," said Gettys, who is from York. 

Two-day-old Kaleyanie Gettys went straight to the NICU, where she has been for over a week. First-time-mom Felicity was discharged, but Kaleyanie has to be watched. 

The IA relationship with Angel Eye began with a cold call and initial meetings with its founder Dr. Curtis Lowery, in 2010 before the company was even licensed out of the UAMS system. Dr. Lowery is the top neo-natal doctor in Arkansas.

Due to his familiarity with the problem, Dr. Lowery and Angle Eye placed themselves at the cutting edge of telemedicine innovation and saw the benefits of his remote NICU telemonitoring system for UAMS patients and families.

With his bachelor's degree fresh in hand from Spring Commencement, Kyle Fouts starts work today as recipient of an Arkansas Fellowship.

His fellowship is with a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences tech transfer start-up company, Angel Eye Cameras.  This is a two-year fellowship, with an annual salary of $40,000 and assurance of employment after he completes the experience.

Driscoll Children's Hospital cares for hundreds of babies in the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit every year.

Those babies are among the tiniest and sickest in the Coastal Bend. Often, the babies are transported from surrounding communities to receive NICU treatment at Driscoll.

Some babies will spend weeks in the NICU, some will be there for months. Unfortunately, parents cannot always be there. But a special camera system in the NICU is allowing parents the ability to always see their babies.

The UAMS Medical Center and Angel Eye Camera Systems, a company established in 2013 with support from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), recently installed 40 new camera systems in the medical center’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), making it the first in the state with a camera on every preemie bed.

Using the Angel Eye camera system, parents can see their baby anytime, day or night, from their mobile phone or computer. Angel Eye represents not only the latest technology, but a total rethinking of how to provide patient- and family-centered care for parents and family members who are away from their babies in the NICU.

UNC Children's Hospital just launched a new program called "Family Time" and it allows parents to see their baby on a live video feed around the clock.

Gina Turner couldn't bring her baby boy home this Christmas.

"He was born at 26 weeks gestation, so it was a pretty scary time for us," Turner said.

Turner also has a toddler son, so she can't be with her baby boy Nico all the time.

"I have a 3-year-old son is not able to come to the NICU because of flu season, so they limit the age of children, so he's not even seen his baby brother yet so we can log on at night, read him stories," Turner said.