[TASMANIANRED]

Not under HIPPA....I have heard of nurses fired for looking at a chart for a patient they weren't taking care of.

Patient information is protected under Federal Law. You cannot share it with any one without written consent.

You cannot share any details that could identify a patient.

I worked in new born nursery years ago. Loosing a mother or having an incident like this happen is big news.

When we had a field delivery and the baby was admitted to the nursery, the baby went in isolation. When they were discharged the room was scrubbed from head to toe. Ceiling, walls, floor and every piece of equipment in it.

I guarantee after this woman had this incident they shut down the entire delivery room and scrubbed everything .

If there had been 2 cases risk management would have shut down labor and delivery and all cases would have gone elsewhere .

You can't make enough money delivering babies to cover 2 mega million dollar lawsuits.

You assume hospitals are cavalier about this stuff. They are not.

Streptococcus is a very aggressive organism. There are a couple of varieties of it.

Streptococcus from strep throat is responsible for virtually all cases of rheumatic heart.

It is aggressive as hell and you can go from well to septic and needing open heart surgery in 24 hours.

[Hildy]

Thank you. I just learned something new. Let me ask you then...you think this woman brought it in to the hospital? What's the incubation time...Would it be possible for her to have a normal delivery and then two days later have this happen???