Your medical library at Martin should be able to get a copy of this CDC
report to your head nurse.  She needs to have this in hand and review it
before she gives anyone grief.   Your head nurse should progress along the
chain of command with report in hand if you have no luck with her.  How can
this LTC discount something written by the CDC?  If it didn't have to do
with breastfeeding, she probably wouldn't balk at it.

Whew..my blood's boiling tonight!

Maurenne Griese, RNC, BSN, CCE, CBE
Birth and Breastfeeding Resources  http://www.childbirth.org/bbfr
Manhattan, KS  USA
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> From: Numakarah <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
> Subject: Biohazard?
> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 1:44 PM
>
> Hi all!  Our IBCLC has asked me to post the following:
>
> Is breastmilk considered a biohazard for JACHO (forgive if I got the
acronym
> wrong, Hospital Joint Accredidation Survey)?  Does a refridgerator
designated
> for breastmilk storage require a biohazard sticker?  What are the
> standards/guidelines?  What are the standard precautions?  What
references?
>
> (The QA -Quality Assurance- LTC -Lieutenant Colonel- at our military
hospital
> is giving us grief & discounting an article quoting from a 1997 CDC
-Center
> for Disease Control- report.  Sorry, don't have the name of the article
> available.)
>
> You may post either privately or to the list.  I will be checking the
archives
> this evening after my toddlers are in bed.
>
> Lisa Holstein  --  mailto:  [log in to unmask]
> LLL of Columbus/Ft. Benning, GA -- League Mom
> Everything's starting to blossom & bloom!
>