Hmm...Thanks so much for your post, Nancy I hadn't thought of it this  
way, but again I ask whether the hospital is concerned about liability  
for damages that are known to occur from the feeding of ABM.  Wouldn't  
release forms that the mother signs disqualify the hospital from  
liability because the mothers chose and brugh tin the food for their  
baby?  If an adult was in the hospital and his wife brought in some  
lasagna from home, and it turned out to be spoiled and the patient  
suffered from food poisoning...would the hospital be held liable for  
that, too?

I'm honestly asking...the whole thing just dumbfounds me.  Thanks for  
any discussion you all can offer.


On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:23 PM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> Date:    Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:09:56 EST
> From:    [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fresh donor milk for an NICU baby
>
> A complete protocol with release forms is available at _www.cpqcc.org_
> (http://www.cpqcc.org) , click on quality improvement,  click on  
> toolkits, then 2008
> nutrition toolkit, then appendices.
>
> The hospital could be held liable for any illness happening to the   
> recipient
> baby from getting non-pasteurized donor human milk -eg. CMV or Hep C  
> -  which
> are not routinely part of prenatal labs.  I can understand why the   
> hospital
> is reluctant/refusing to use the milk.
>
> Nancy
> Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM,  FAAP
> Neonatologist
> Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Rady Children's  Hospital  
> San Diego
> Medical Director, Sharp HealthCare Lactation  Services
> San Diego, CA
> [log in to unmask]


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