Newborn discovered in NY hospital bathroom
Hospital Safety Connection, February 25, 2004
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An abandoned newborn girl was found alive in the bathroom of a Staten Island hospital February 24, Newsday reports.
The girl, found in a lobby bathroom at St. Vincent's Hospital Staten Island, may have been born elsewhere, police said. The child was fully clothed and her umbilical cord had been cut.
A St. Vincent's spokesman said the infant was in good health and there had been no breach at the hospital's maternity ward.
The girl was the third baby found abandoned in less than two days in the New York area. The same day, a man found a newborn girl inside a gift bag in the vestibule of his Bay Ridge building. The baby was in stable condition February 24 at Lutheran Medical Center.
On February 23, social workers at a Harlem clinic that helps pregnant women found a newborn boy in a large leather bag. The child was taken to Harlem Hospital Center, where he was in stable condition on February 24.
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