I am a pre-nursing student. My mother passed away in Dec. of '08 and I've always wondered something...I was in the hospital when she passed, I had just given birth two days prior to my fourth child. Anyway, the hospital called my husband at home to tell him that my mother was brought into the ER unresponsive and that she had passed. They wanted to know if they should go to my room and tell me, or if he wanted to come to the hospital and tell me. How did they know I was in the hospital? My mother lived alone so nobody could have told them this. Does this mean that she had to have been alert enough at some point to tell them where I was? How did they know I was in the hospital? This has always made me wonder...any ideas on how they knew this info?