NICU

Parents with newborns in intensive care have long faced a difficult but overlooked plight: Many choose to return to work immediately rather than use up leave they will need when their baby comes home.

Whether the proposals will be enough to stop administrative challenges filed by Tampa General Hospital or Broward Health remains to be seen.

Research shows that music therapy in neonatal intensive care units helps infants get released from the hospital early. Experts in Florida helped pioneer…