2006
Dr. Bernadette Melnyk demonstrates that her Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment (COPE) program, which aims to support the parents of premature infants, results in improved knowledge and parenting behaviors, decreased parental stress, and shorter length of NICU stays, reducing health care costs associated with premature births by about $4,800 per infant. COPE has since been adopted by hospitals and insurers throughout the United States.