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Bed Tag

Bed Tag

A tag on one of the beds, each have a name, admission date, hist #, and religion, I suppose for proper procedure when a patient dies.
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Did they have patient I.D. wrist bands then?
I wander if any patients did any bed swapping to confuse the staff...
Radar
Sun 08-21-2005
Being that this was a TB hospital, my guess would be "no."
Lynne
Tue 08-30-2005
do they have to have the religion?
inspired TB researcher
Mon 10-23-2006
Most facilities ask for your religion in case you die and they need to know what sort of clergy to call for the service so they don't do anything "wrong" before the family gets there. However, I have seen many places where they put "None" if the family hasn't marked a preference. Then the person usually gets a generic Christian-type service from the local padre (unless they are in an area where a specific religion predominates - Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, etc.).
Lynne
Mon 10-23-2006
It might help when planning numbers for chapel services.

Normally chapels would be too small for all patients to attend one service, so a few spread over a Sunday split by denomiation would make things more manageable.
Richard Davies
Wed 05-02-2007
A patient's history left behind for others to find. Thanks for giving this person a voice through your photo.
Amazed
Wed 03-05-2008
Actually, even for religious preference today, not only is it for when a patient deceases, but even for living ones. Example would be Jehovahs Witnesses do not believe in receiving blood products which undoubtly would be a concern in a TB hospital.
widegrooves
Sat 08-14-2010

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