Do any of your hospitals have policies that state that employees can not accept gifts over X amount? When the hospital instituted their "compliance policy" as directed by JCAHO/Federal Government/Medicare - who ever! All employees were required to sign acknowledgement of this. One section clearly stated that "gifts" from vendors, patients, family's were prohibited. Small acknowledgements, such as flowers, candy, pens, magnets were acceptable as long as the receiver did not accept these for giving preferential treatment. I can get the exact wording if any one is interested. Our facility has identified these as having a total value of less than $25.00. Marley, RNC *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html