GA hospital stops reporting births
Hospital Safety Connection, January 2, 2003
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Citing concerns about child abductions, St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital in Savannah, GA, stopped placing birth announcements in local newspapers for children born on or after December 1, 2002.
Candler is the second Savannah-area hospital in two years to discontinue birth announcements, the Augusta Chronicle reports. Memorial Health University Medical Center stopped making announcements in October 2001.
No child has ever been abducted from Candler Hospital's locked maternity ward or nurseries, but Candler followed the advice of both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to end birth announcements. The JCAHO issued an alert concerning infant abductions in April 1999 that encouraged hospitals to discontinue publication of birth announcements in local newspapers because they draw the attention of would-be abductors.
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