[Histonet] Returning Placentas to Patients

[Cheri Miller]

Smart!!

Cheryl Miller HT ASCP
Histology Supervisor
Physicians Laboratory Services
Omaha, NE. 402 731 4148
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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Cartun
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 12:29 PM
To: Laurie Colbert; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Returning Placentas to Patients

We no longer will release any tissue to a patient or family member.  If they want their tissue they now have to go through a funeral home.

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, Ph.D.
Director, Histology & Immunopathology
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
(860) 545-1596
(860) 545-0174 Fax

>>> "Laurie Colbert" <laurie.colbert <@t> huntingtonhospital.com> 10/30/2009 11:58 AM >>>
For those of you who work at hospitals that will let patients take their
placentas home, I have a question.  Do you ever see these placentas -
are they sent to Pathology for exam before being returned to the patient
or is the placenta given directly to the patient in L&D?



Laurie Colbert

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