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Re: Baby Stolen From Hospital From: Joanne Thieme Huffman, PhD (perinatl@sprynet.com) Sat Aug 1 12:11:43 1998 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: MR DARRYN W DUNBAR: "OB-GYN-L digest 36/Honeymoon Syndrome" Previous message: Philip Rosenow: "Re: Cesarean section under local" Another method is to have ID cards/badges that change color over time (i.e., a few hours to a few days) so that they are ovbious to the casual observer that they have expired. Dean Huffman At 11:00 PM 7/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >At Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Luis Sanchez-Ramos wrote: >> >>What safeguard do other hospitals have to prevent this tragedy ? >>-- >>Luis Sanchez-ramos, MD >> >We fairly recently implemented a new security system. It has it's >drawbacks -- email me if you want to know what those are. It works like >this: >1. Babies all have an electronic sensor thing on their ankles. Alarms >sound if a baby with a sensor gets near an exit. >2. All units (L&D, Nsy, Maternity, Neo, and our Perinatal High Risk >Unit) are completely locked down. No one gets in >(including Doctors which has proven extremely unfortunate on occassion) >unless we let them in. >3. Staff authorized to handle babies all have numbered, colored badges >that are signed out for and counted every shift. Pt's are instructed >not to ever let anyone touch their baby if they do not have this badge. > >It was an extremely expensive system but the powers that be felt it a >worthwhile expense. If you would like more info re cost, drawbacks, >etc. email me. > >-- >Nancy Casserly, RNC > Next message: MR DARRYN W DUNBAR: "OB-GYN-L digest 36/Honeymoon Syndrome" Previous message: Philip Rosenow: "Re: Cesarean section under local"

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