At the first light of morning while her family slept, Marie Richards would quietly leave her home and drive 80 miles to the hospital where her 5-year-old son was being cared for after a traumatic injury.

She’d spend the entire day at her son’s bedside, offering the kind of support only a mother can provide. Then, well after midnight, she would get back in her car and make the long drive home, allowing herself a few hours of much-needed rest before getting up and readying herself for another long drive and another full day by her son’s side.

It’s every parent’s dream – a happy, healthy baby, 10 fingers, 10 toes and all the normal things.

And with all of today’s modern technology, most births go according to plan.  But when they don’t, and the baby gets stressed, the caregivers have to make quick decisions on what’s best for mom and baby. 

That’s where STAN comes in – a first of its kind technology in the United States that is giving doctors who deliver at Community Regional Medical Center help in a heart beat.