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Health commissioner tells CT hospital to tighten security
Healthcare Security Weekly, November 7, 2005
The Connecticut Children's Medical Center had until November 15 to submit a plan to the state health commissioner on how it's going to improve its quality of care or the facility risks losing its license to operate, reports the Hartford Courant.
The hospital submitted that plan last week and incorporated an increase of security as part of the solution.
The changes in security come after two incidents last year that saw a drug-abusing mother illegally remove her baby from the hospital and another where a 7-year-old boy visiting another patient went into the room of a disabled baby and dropped the infant on its head.
New security measures will call for visitors and patients to sign in at the security desk and wear a bar-coded sticker while in the hospital. Patients and visitors must then give back the sticker when leaving so the hospital can track who is present in the facility.
The hospital will also lock all doors of inpatient units and post security guards on each floor of the facility to constantly monitor hallways.
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