A hospital in Richmond, Virginia, paused admissions to its neonatal intensive care unit after three babies were found with mysterious injuries.
The three babies in the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital NICU had “unexplainable fractures,” bearing similarity “to an incident involving four babies in the summer of 2023,” according to a Tuesday statement from the hospital.
“We initiated a thorough internal investigation, informed the families and notified the proper authorities and regulatory agencies and worked collaboratively with them on their investigations,” the statement continued.
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The decision not to admit new babies into the NICU was made “out of an abundance of caution.”
Henrico Doctors’ Hospital explained that while pre-term babies sometimes experience fractures since they lack full fetal development, the facility is “actively working to determine how
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