Officials with The Woman’s Hospital of Texas announced Nov. 9 the opening of the Alicia's Angels Family Care Room, a new component of the Fannin Street facility meant to comfort grieving parents who experience a pregnancy or infant loss.
The hospital partnered with the Connecticut-based nonprofit Alicia's Angels to open the room, according to a Nov. 9 news release. The nonprofit was started by Jona Sager, who lost her daughter, Alicia, shortly after she was born. The nonprofit's goal, Sager said, is to give parents a space away from a medical setting to peacefully say goodbye.
“I wanted to be able to do more when there was nothing more medically we could do," Sager said in a statement. "This is how Alicia’s Angels was born. By creating these living areas in the hospital, away from the medical environment, we give these families a peaceful and beautiful place to say goodbye and create memories.”
This is the first Alicia’s Angels Family Care Room in Texas, as well as the first to be established in a hospital, according to the release. Sager decided to expand into Houston after being contacted by Dr. Alana Carpenter, a neonatologist and pediatric palliative medicine physician in Houston.
