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Protecting Your Baby
Safety and Security For Your Baby
Your new baby’s safety is one of our highest priorities. Federal laws require hospitals to make provision to keep our birthing centers safe as possible. Here are the security measures and procedures we employ.
In the hospital…
Our Family Birthing Center employs several security measures and procedures:
- When your baby is born, ID tags are immediately secured to his or her wrist and ankle to properly identify your baby. Mom and her support partner each must wear an ID tag that matches the baby. These tags are not removed until after discharge from the hospital.
- Only Mom and her support person are allowed to remove the child from the Nursery, and only after staff has checked to be sure that the ID tags match. Visitors are not allowed in the Nursery or to transport the baby back to the mother’s room.
- All hospital staff visibly displays their hospital badges at all times.
- The Family Birthing Center is a locked unit. No one can enter or leave without permission from the staff.
- All visitors must wear visitor badges at all times.
- Our Security Department monitors stairwells 24 hours a day via video surveillance and doors are locked and equipped with alarms.
- Doors to the stairwells are locked and equipped with alarms. If the alarms are triggered, security and hospital staff immediately respond by securing the stairwells and any exit points in the hospital.
At home…
Here are some security suggestions we encourage you to do at home.
- Take the time to write a description of your infant, including hair and eye color, height, weight, date of birth, and specific physical characteristics.
- Take at least one color photograph of your infant (full, front face view).
- Don’t leave your infant unattended in a public place, even for an instant.
- Don’t allow any stranger, no matter how “safe” he or she appears, to hold or watch your infant for you.