NICU rooms at San Francisco hospital get heartfelt makeover for babies, families

ROOMS IN THE NEONATAL intensive care unit at San Francisco’s Sutter Health’s CPMC were abuzz Thursday with a dozen volunteers who worked to transform the relatively plain walls into a more welcoming facade for premature babies and their families. 

The nonprofit Once Upon a Room worked with Sutter CPMC staff to put up streamers, dinosaur stickers, and customized blankets in the rooms of three NICU patients — the first time ever in a North California hospital — with the goal to make families feel better in a space where they spend days on end as medical professionals care for their children.