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ST RK NURSES help moms and babies get closer — it’s how Allegheny Health Network cares for women throughout life When infants are born, they enter a cold, noisy world, very diff erent from the warm, familiar bodies of their mothers. Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Stork Nurse Meghan Wagoner helps babies and mothers make a swift, soothing connection. Meghan is living proof that a great nurse makes the greatest diff erence. Fastest growing health system for labor and delivery AHN has been recognized as having the region’s fastest growing labor and delivery program in western Pennsylvania.* In 2016, we delivered over 7,300 babies across West Penn, Forbes, Jeff erson, and Saint Vincent hospitals. Each labor and delivery unit has a neonatal intensive care unit NICU for critically ill infants to receive highly specialized care including two Level III NICUs that care for those babies who need it most. *Claim based on inpatient utilization data for the 29 counties in WPA as reported by Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council for calendar years 2012-2015. www.phc4.org/reports/utilization/inpatient/ Nurse Meghan help s her little miracles ease into the world .