The NEC Society and University of Arizona NEC-Zero are deeply committed to improving outcomes for medically fragile infants at risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, through evidence-based prevention strategies, patient-family integrated care, and collaboration.

The NEC Society and NEC-Zero came together to create a video that aims to inspire providers and patient-families in the NICU to partner in their effort to reduce the risks of NEC and improve outcomes for babies.

Check out the video and then explore these resources:

• Pediatric Research Supplement
• Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
  • Enhancing NICU parent engagement and empowerment  
• NEC-Zero, Avoiding NEC Checklist
• NEC-Zero, Gut Check
• NEC Society: Human Milk; Parents as Care Partners; What Parents in the NICU Need to Know
• 2019 NEC Symposium at the University of Michigan
• NEC Symposium at UC Davis, Executive Summary – with an overview on prevention strategies, patient-family quality of life in the NICU, and collaborative care. 

Special thanks to the UC Davis Children’s Hospital and KJ2 Productions for helping to make this video possible! 

The NEC-Zero project at the University of Arizona College of Nursing was developed with research support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program (72114) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (K08HS022908) to Dr. Sheila Gephart. NEC-Zero resources reported in this video are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Cooperative Agreement number UG4LM012341. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.