AURORA, Colo. — Six weeks after Children’s Hospital Colorado restricted Amber McCullough’s visiting hours to see her own daughter, she now has been barred entirely from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The move came Sunday after McCullough said she told a nurse she was looking forward to transferring her 4-month-old daughter Hannah to Boston Children’s Hospital and getting a second opinion for her care.
“This shouldn’t happen to anyone. This is a complete abuse of power and my daughter is sitting in a hospital room paying for it because she can’t have mom there,” McCullough said in an exclusive interview with FOX31 Denver.
McCullough gave birth to conjoined twins on Aug. 26, knowing only one could survive separation surgery. Hannah’s sister Olivia died at birth. McCullough, a native of Minnesota, praised the staff of Children’s Hospital Colorado at the time but relations turned frosty three months later.
McCullough’s visiting access was restricted on Nov. 23 to three hours per day after the hospital imposed a “behavior agreement.” McCullough and her attorney James Avery called the action a case of retaliation because it came one business day after McCullough filed a complaint with the state health department.