CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Heading into this National Child Passenger Safety Month and Child Passenger Safety Week September 21-though-27, UVA Health found at least six non-compliant child safety seats during its screenings at are inpatient and outpatient centers. UVA Health Nurse Manager Brianna Russell in a recent conference call with reporters said their latest investigation, and outreach effort, began when in a nurse putting a baby into a car seat during a car seat trial they often do found “a few things that didn’t seem correct”.
“So she called another team member in to look at the car seat, and upon discovery, they saw that it was a 3-point harness, not a 5-point harness, which is the standard,” Russell said. “And so that led to bigger investigation and outreach. So we did some communication within UVA Health here in Charlottesville, provided that information to our NICU partners and our outpatient clinics. And then we also connected to our community health partners up in Culpeper and Prince William, and they reported back, similar instances, and so we have been able to identify non-US compliant car seats here in Charlottesville, inpatient. And outpatient, and then up in Culpeper as well.”
They helped those families with getting proper car seats…