Iowa State University Dance Marathon Funds Hemodynamics!

On Saturday, January 25th, Iowa State University Dance Marathon completed their pledge to fund the new Hemodynamics Program in the NICU at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

Through the efforts of the Dance Marathon students, campus, community, and donors, $700,000 was raised between the 2019 and 2020 Dance Marathon Events to help provide life saving care to some of the Hospital’s tiniest patients.

The Hemodynamics program at The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital supports babies born 27 weeks gestation and younger (22-25 weeks shows significantly higher survival rates than any other hospital at ~78% survival rate).

Through this program, they are able to offer state of the art monitoring of infants, precision diagnostics, higher survival rates for super sick and low birth weight infants, better outcomes, development of new standards of care, more robust measurements and research base for future studies, and so much more.

Over the past year, the Hemodynamics program has grown exponentially with more that 600 critically ill babies supported– and it’s only just getting started. The groundwork laid by Iowa State University Dance Marathon will ensure that critically ill babies get the best care.