Lori says,
> Administration says no can
> do as we are nonprofit.  Gift Shop is not interested as they feel there is
> not enough space and no money to be made...even though I can store the
> pumps on OB where we see nursing mothers, and I have shown them the numbers
> are far as profit is concerned.  How do other non profit hospitals handle
> this?
>

Lori, please go to someone in administration that knows something about
making money for hospitals.  ALL hospitals, profit or non-profit are expected
to SHOW a profit.  If they don't make money, they can't do anything the next
year and the next.  Believe me, my husband works for a non-profit hospital
and by gum, they BETTER show a profit at the end of the year!  Of COURSE a
non-profit hospital can have a rental station.  It will help pay for your
services as a lactation consultant and keep the program afloat.

Whoever you talked to in administration doesn't know squat about this.  It is
a SERVICE to the public.  (The hospital can have an outpatient pharmacy too.)

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, RLC
Lactation Education Consultants
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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