BOSTON -- In a NewsCenter 5 exclusive last summer, WEEI's Glenn Ordway and his wife, Sarah, shared the story of the traumatic birth of their daughter, Mia, born with a near-fatal brain injury, and the technology that saved her life. Now, baby Mia is 1 year old, and she and her family returned to the hospital where she was born for a special reunion and a special presentation.

"She's doing great. She's off the charts. She does everything that you'd expect a child at 1 year of age would do," Glenn Ordway said.

Ordway said Mia's recovery has been remarkable. One year ago, she was born with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, a brain injury that occurs because if a lack of oxygen or blood flow to the brain at birth. The Ordways were not sure Mia would even live through the night.

Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital convinced the Ordways to try a controversial new treatment called induced hypothermia. Mia was placed on a cooling blanket that lowered her body temperature to 92.3 degrees for three days. The treatment is similar to a bear in hibernation.

Dr. Robert Insoft, medical director for the neonatal intensive care unit at Brigham and Women's, knew that this type of therapy would give Mia the best chance of a very good outcome. But Brigham and Women's Hospital did not have a cooling blanket and she was sent to Children's Hospital -- the only New England hospital with the cooling technology.

Since the Ordways first shared their story in July, several more hospitals now offer the cooling therapy. Ordway believes that is a result of the tremendous exposure of Mia's story.

"There are other hospitals now that are putting these cooling units in there, and they're telling the people at Cincinnati Sub Zero the reason they're doing it is because they heard of our case," he said.

Cincinnati Sub Zero is the company that makes the cooling unit and the blankets.

And as a thank-you to Brigham and Women's for saving Mia's life, the Ordways gave the hospital its first cooling blanket. The family also created the Miracle Mia Foundation.

At the presentation of the unit to the hospital, Ordway said he hoped the unit would give the hospital "the opportunity to save more lives in the way that you saved Mia's life."

Insoft said the Ordway's gift would allow the hospital to continue the tradition of clinical excellence for which the Brigham and Women's Hospital is known.

"This hospital, along with Children's Hospital gave us the best gift you could give anybody and that's this little girl right here," Ordway said. "This wonderful, beautiful bundle here has the looks of her mother and the lungs of her father, and it's our goal to hopefully have more happy endings for more families and more little babies like this."