A New York midwife is waging a legal battle for restoration of her privileges at Nassau University Medical Center that were suspended after she removed a placenta from the hospital to bury it in her garden. Jeanette Breen, a registered nurse and licensed midwife, received permission from her patient to take the placenta, but did not seek prior authorization from the medical center, which claims that she violated the hospital's policy and state law for the disposal of regulated medical wastes.
October 23, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A Baldwin, N.Y., midwife is waging a legal battle for restoration of her privileges at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, N.Y., that were suspended after she removed a placenta from the hospital to bury it in her garden.
Jeanette Breen, 60, who has been delivering babies at the medical center since the early 1990s, was suspended on Nov. 9, 2005, shortly after she left the hospital with the placenta.
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