/YES!!! This CANNOT happen without parental consent under any 
circumstances. It certainly will never happen at our facility./

/Cheers Eva Hoebee
/

On 4/5/2019 3:30 AM, Marsha Walker wrote:
> Holly writes of a situation in her hospital where babies are being given
> formula without the parent's knowledge or permission. An interesting
> article appeared in the February 2000 issue of the Journal of Human
> Lactation entitled, "Using the law of battery to protect and support
> breastfeeding by Priscilla Bornmann, JD and Graham Ross, LLB. The article
> mentioned that if the parent had clearly stated that she wanted to
> exclusively breastfeed and not to give bottles of formula, then the theory
> of civil battery might be applied and the hospital could be liable for
> sneaking unwanted formula into babies. You might want to check with your
> Risk Management Department as well as your hospital's legal counsel about
> this practice. Hospitals without clear supplementation policies that are
> followed by staff might also benefit from this situation being brought to
> the attention of the Quality Improvement people to see if a QI project
> might be a strategy to help stop the practice.
>
> Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
> Weston, MA
>
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