Worst Urgent Care Center - ever:"State investigates baby born in Fulton parking lot"

[hedgehog]

FULTON -- The New York State Health Department confirms it is investigating an incident in which a mother was forced to deliver her baby in a parking lot because she was blocked from entering the Oswego Health Urgent Care Center in Fulton.

Amy Roy of Minetto told CNY Central's Jim Kenyon that she went into labor on December 27th. As her husband, Jason, was driving her to Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, she realized they could not make it in time. Jason said they arrived at the Fulton Urgent Care Center at around 10:15am. Amy says a female nurse was helping her into the center, but a male nurse intervened and said "we don't deliver babies here."

Roy says the male nurse tried to lead her back to her car and downplayed her pleas that the baby actually being born. The staff called 9-1-1 and waited for an ambulance to arrive. Amy Roy says when the Menter ambulance crew arrived, the baby was delivered while she was standing in the lot, in 17 degree weather, 20 feet from the main entrance in full view of people entering the facility. The Roys say 15 minutes expired from the time they arrived at Fulton Urgent Care until their son, Maddox was born. They say their baby is healthy and shows no ill effects from the unusual birth.

http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=567554

"“They gave me nothing but one of the other nurses put a blanket around the arms of the male nurse probably because he had on short sleeves,” she alleged."


On edit: looking over the story, the time line is 42 minutes from the woman waking up in labor to delivery in the parking lot. There is no way she would have made it to the hospital in Syracuse in time.

http://www.valleynewsonline.com/viewnews.php?newsid=86110&id=1&mode=archive

[HereSince1628]

1. Hey, the nurses took care of their own, it ain't all BAD news!

:sarcasm:

[hedgehog]

4. A classic case of allowing obedience to an authority figure

outweigh common sense.

I wonder if any of the doctors there knew what was going on?

[HereSince1628]

5. I am no more confident of doctors than nurses...

Doctors who work in those places have less authority than accountants and less philosophical influence than actuaries. They put in their hours and see the maximum number of persons per hour that they can.

[molly77]

15. My brother went into an urgent care in a shopping

center in the south. He was dizzy. The EKG showed he was in atrial fibrillation. Later on he had a stroke. When he went back to the urgent care, they admitted that they knew he was in atrial fib. Would never go to one of those places.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Hope they don't send her a big giant bill for the parking lot birth.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. He was yelling for her to not help me.”

“When my cousin went inside they said to ‘take her to a hospital because we don’t deliver babies’,” Roy alleged. “One female nurse came out to try to help and a male nurse came out and told the female nurse to stop helping me. He was yelling for her to not help me.”

Roy alleged the male nurse then took her by the arm and tried to put her back in the car. “I told him I could not sit down,” she said. “I kept telling him the head is coming.”

Standing in the cold with her baby entering the world, the male nurse kept trying to get her back in the car, she claimed.

[abelenkpe]

6. Insane!

Someone needs to lose their job. "We don't deliver babies" Yeah jerko, but you are a nurse. Good bedside manners. :sarcasm:

[Ilsa]

7. Wouldn't A Good Samaritan law have protected the urgent care center?

(protect from lawsuit) The parents were notified that they don't deliver babies. There was no time to transfer; It was dropping right out of her; help her and the baby for crying out loud.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. No, since they are medical practitioners

yes it is crazy.

the lawsuit is there either way. Again, crazee...

[AngryAmish]

10. Good samaritan laws would absolutely protect them

As long as try don't try to charge them.

Quick med mal lesson:

A medical professional has to violate what is known as "the standard of care." That is what a reasonable similar professional would do in that situation. In an emergency situation the standard of care is pretty low - this would be the same as if they walked into a podiatrist's office to have a baby at the last minute. They just have to try their best. What would violate the standard of care: sending them away to have a baby in the parking lot. Or punching them mom in the face. The standard is that low. Just do your best to help.

THere is this myth that a doc or nurse who tries to help a person on the street will get sued if there is a bad outcome. I've never heard of that happening in Illinois in almost 20 years in the business.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. You should try California

:-)

Yep, the land of fruits and nuts is quite amusing in that respect.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yes Urgent Care centers USUALLY do not deliver babies

they are not equipped for it...

But this is a lawsuit waiting to happen...

Oh and 98% of deliveries we just stand there and cheer mom on... serious.

It is the OTHER two percent that scare the living daylights out of me.

[hedgehog]

14. My guess is that most times, if the baby comes that fast, there's

really no need to do anything but stand by to catch!

[Urban Prairie]

11. The clinic could have at least permitted the woman to give birth

while inside their building, and have the father sign a handwritten note absolving the clinic of any responsibility for, or culpability in any potential health issues and/or complications arising during and after the baby's birth.

Seems fairly obvious to me that was their unspoken reason for their reluctance to help that poor woman give birth.

Assholes just might end up with much more trouble, than they would have had by just doing the right thing to begin with, IMO.

[hedgehog]

13. The best part is that the woman works for a doctor who has offices in that building!