“…While NICUs offer life-saving measures for neonates with improved survival, they are also associated with significant morbidity and mortality, high healthcare costs, and increased risk of nosocomial infections [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Numerous risk factors are correlated with increased odds of NICU admissions, including prematurity, maternal diabetes mellitus, hypertension, premature rupture of membranes (PROM), C-section, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and multiple gestations [2,[9][10][11][12]. Several risk factors are associated with a neonate's increased length of stay (LOS) in the NICU, including ventilator-dependent, low birth weight, low 5-minute Apgar score, surfactant administration, and infections [6,7,13,14].…”