Providing a helping hand
to infants and families in the NICU
for more than 25 years

Good Beginnings is here to help

Imagine the thrill of expecting a child. The newly decorated nursery, the hopes and dreams, the stirring of life within—and then unexpected complications. Prematurity, birth defects, infections, serious illness—these can rapidly turn dreams into nightmares.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Good Beginnings organization is the support group for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Good Beginnings' purpose is to promote and advance the care of newborn infants at Cedars-Sinai.

The organization offers an array of outreach services and programs to benefit both families and NICU staff free of charge. Some of our programs and initiatives include facilitating a variety of weekly forums for parent-to-parent support where former NICU parents can guide and help other families through their NICU journey, hosting infant-care education opportunities for families being discharged with special needs infants, providing extensive bereavement support to families experiencing a loss, offering continued education to the NICU staff, as well as funding neonatal medical research.