The speaker at our March 11 Zoom meeting will be Tara Sundem, Executive Director at Hushabye Nursery.As a neonatal nurse practitioner, Tara brings over 28 years of experience caring for babies in the neonatal intensive care unit. She was drawn to babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome with the opioid epidemic. Her passion to transform the healthcare experience for the babies and their families has led to her founding Hushabye Nursery, an Arizona non-profit dedicated to caring for opiate-exposed newborns in their first weeks of life.
Tara's career in healthcare has spanned across the valley neonatal intensive care units. She most recently served as Executive Director at Hushabye Nursery. Under Tara's leadership, Hushabye Nursery has grown from an idea to "save the babies" in 2016 to a new care model serving the entire family system impacted by the opioid crisis starting prenatally and continuing after discharge from the hospital.
Tara holds a Master of Science from Arizona State University and is a board-certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She lives in Gilbert with her husband, two sons and a dog.