Elliot WOMEN’S & CHILDREN’S Services
The Elliot Women's
& Children's Services
Elliot’s Pediatric/Adolescent Center
Wisdom – Technology – Collaboration - Family
This is The Elliot Maternity Center
Infant Safety
Children's safety is of the utmost importance to us at Elliot Hospital, and we have policies and procedures in place to help protect children from infection, invasion of privacy, fire, and abduction.
Babies born at the Elliot are immediately issued a nameband that matches their parents'. This nameband is just one part of a state-of-the-art security system designed to protect infants. If the baby is taken outside a set perimeter of the Maternity Ward, the nameband sets off an alarm and summons security immediately. Please remember some basic guidelines during your stay with us, or at any hospital:
• Do not leave your baby unattended , even for a moment.
• If your baby needs to be taken
back to the Newborn Nursery for tests, make sure the person doing so
has an Elliot Hospital ID badge and takes the infant back in his/her
crib.
• Do not allow your infant to be
carried from your room to the Newborn Nursery.
• If you feel something is wrong,
call for a nurse immediately. DO NOT allow the person asking to take
your baby to do so.
• Do not give your home address or telephone number to a stranger who
seems to take an interest in you. Please notify the nursing staff if
an unusually friendly stranger who does not have hospital business with
you, and is asking personal questions visits you in your room.
• Babysitter Information Worksheet
