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Posts tagged ‘Hospital Issues’

Rally at Summerlin Hospital

March 30th, 2011

This is a followup post on the situation at Summerlin Hospital in which a nurse called social services on the parents of a newborn baby girl with a mild level of jaundice. If you need background on the case, you can read my original post with the press release.
We held a peaceful rally in [...]

Once again, hospital staff decides that it knows what is better for a child than the parents. A nurse on staff at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas reported the parents of a newborn to social services and had the baby held at the hospital without parental consent, simply because the parents opted for an alternative [...]

Don’t flush the placenta!

January 19th, 2010

I was notified last night that Swedish Hospital in Seattle, WA had begun refusing to release placentas to mothers. I just spoke with the Nurse Manager at the hospital, and found that this is NOT true. They are still, indeed, releasing healthy placentas upon request. Ms. Becky Means stated that the mother will be given [...]

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