CBA Florida Inc. (fka CBAI)

[dianebRN]

I think your idea is a good one, neck. However, CBAI or anyone else would never have access to those patients cause of privacy laws and the fact that even though it's for a good cause the act itself would be called solicitation, which patients have a right to expect will not occur while in a hospital. For an idea like that to take root, legislation would have to occur to enable a neutral process to occur by which parents could be asked a question like that and it would be impossible to direct it to any one cord bank. Each state has a Perinatal system that could develop legislation of that nature, however, usually the impetus for something like that to occur is for someone like the Center for Disease Control or March of Dimes or Red Cross or someone neutral in health care to identify the need as a public health concern and gain national support and subsequently suppport at the state level.

Anyway, whoever said we don't already have some form of nationalized health care,right? haha It's too darn complicated for a simple, practical idea like you present to get through the maze.

What if we go to hospitals and ask all new parents, whether or not they are storing with CBAI, if they would like to doante their placenta blood. Could this from you have put out be a standard form given to all parents having babies born in specific hospitals.