The Detroit News. It's been 12 years since an infant was abducted from Mott Children's Hospital. The Ann Arbor hospital is installing an upgraded security system designed to make it more difficult for a stranger to abscond with a baby born there. An alarm system already is in place on one floor at Mott, where more than 3,500 babies were born in the 2000 fiscal year. Upgraded hardware is only part of Mott's approach to ensuring the safety of babies born there.
Security is a team approach, with everybody involved.
Newborns also wear alarm-triggering electronic tags at St. John Hospital in Detroit, where a baby born with a chemical dependency was abducted by his own mother a week after his birth in September 1999.