You might check with the hospital where you would like to donate. I have had three great nieces/nephew in the NICU in the past year. They stayed mostly in open warming beds. Looking around the NICU rooms, there were only a few of the traditional looking incubators with a top, which is where I've read they use the quilts. Also, each baby is in an individual room and the lights are kept very dim, which is very different from when my daughter was in the NICU years ago. I would think going home quilts would be appreciated. The latest premie in our family just went home, she has had trouble staying warm, so she has to be swaddled in multiple layers.