2nd stillborn's remains: ‘Second set of remains were in same basket of linens’, A second stillborn's remains are believed to have been in the same basket of linens that held the remains of the first stillborn baby that was found at a commercial laundry service in Red Wing. On Friday, Regions Hospital of St. Paul in Minnesota said that “it believes that the second set of remains were in the same basket of linens that held the remains of another stillborn baby. The linens were sent to a laundry in Red Wing,” reported the Associated Press on April 19, 2013.
Regions Hospital has ruled out that the second stillborn’s remains were sent to a funeral home or any other location.
Friday’s announcement that the second stillborn’s remains are believed to have been in the same basket of linens as the first stillborn baby was accompanied with a statement by the Region Hospital’s CEO Brock Nelson who apologized and called it a “terrible mistake.”
Just a few days ago, laundry workers at the commercial laundry service in Red Wing discovered the dead body of a stillborn baby boy when the remains tumbled out of a sheet of linen.
The first stillborn was born at 22 weeks and was wearing a diaper and had a tag on his ankle when he tumbled out of the linens. The baby boy had been wrapped in linens at the morgue at the Regions Hospital in St. Paul and Regions Hospital admitted to having mishandled the remains of the stillborn baby.
The second stillborn baby was born at 19 weeks gestational age and its remains are still unaccounted for.
Chris Boese, the chief nursing officer at Regions Hospital, says that a “tragic human error was made and we believe both sets of remains were mistaken as empty linens and placed in the laundry at the same time by a hospital worker.”
While the hospital worker who mistook the two stillborn babies as empty linens has not been identified so far, everyone at Regions Hospital is taking full responsibility.
Regions Hospital handles about 2,500 births in a year and two babies per month are usually stillborn. While some families take care of the remains of the stillborn, other families leave it up to the hospital to take care of that. In some cases, the remains of a stillborn baby stay at the hospital “for a week or more,” said Chris Boese in a previous statement.
Regions Hospital’s CEO Brock Nelson stated that placing the remains of two stillborn babies in a linen basket was “unacceptable and the hospital is taking steps to ensure it does not happen again.”
Brock Nelson also said that, “We have many good staff. It's just a real tragedy ... we are just very, very sorry."
Regions Hospital has ruled out that the second stillborn’s remains were sent to a funeral home or any other location.
Friday’s announcement that the second stillborn’s remains are believed to have been in the same basket of linens as the first stillborn baby was accompanied with a statement by the Region Hospital’s CEO Brock Nelson who apologized and called it a “terrible mistake.”
Just a few days ago, laundry workers at the commercial laundry service in Red Wing discovered the dead body of a stillborn baby boy when the remains tumbled out of a sheet of linen.
The first stillborn was born at 22 weeks and was wearing a diaper and had a tag on his ankle when he tumbled out of the linens. The baby boy had been wrapped in linens at the morgue at the Regions Hospital in St. Paul and Regions Hospital admitted to having mishandled the remains of the stillborn baby.
The second stillborn baby was born at 19 weeks gestational age and its remains are still unaccounted for.
Chris Boese, the chief nursing officer at Regions Hospital, says that a “tragic human error was made and we believe both sets of remains were mistaken as empty linens and placed in the laundry at the same time by a hospital worker.”
While the hospital worker who mistook the two stillborn babies as empty linens has not been identified so far, everyone at Regions Hospital is taking full responsibility.
Regions Hospital handles about 2,500 births in a year and two babies per month are usually stillborn. While some families take care of the remains of the stillborn, other families leave it up to the hospital to take care of that. In some cases, the remains of a stillborn baby stay at the hospital “for a week or more,” said Chris Boese in a previous statement.
Regions Hospital’s CEO Brock Nelson stated that placing the remains of two stillborn babies in a linen basket was “unacceptable and the hospital is taking steps to ensure it does not happen again.”
Brock Nelson also said that, “We have many good staff. It's just a real tragedy ... we are just very, very sorry."
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