According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: "Safeguarding newborn infants requires a comprehensive program of healthcare policy, procedures, and processes; education of and teamwork by nursing personnel, parents, physicians, security and risk-management personnel; and coordination of various elements of physical and electronic security.”

Over 100 infants have been abducted from healthcare facilities in the past 15 years. Protecting Infants from abduction while still in the maternity/birthing ward has been the focus study and hospital and nursing review agencies and is being treated more seriously by hospitals large and small alike.

The HUGS system which monitors a babies whereabouts and insures its presence “on the ward” is one of the Security Systems sold and installed by Bennett Communications. Another less frequent threat to maternity departments is the issue of unintentionally “swapped” babies.

The Hugs system has recently been expanded to include an amazing new     feature – called KISSES.

Kisses is a component of the Hugs Infant Protection System that provides automatic mother/infant matching notification. With Kisses, each mother is given a small tag (the Kisses tag) that is bonded with her infant’s Hugs tag at birth. From that point forward, the tags remain bonded throughout their stay in the hospital. Nurses are then alerted with an audible indicator that immediately confirms the match or mismatch of infant and mother every time the two are brought together.

You can learn more about  KISSES on the web at http://www.xmarksystems.com