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May have worked. I have worked in hospitals in US and there's no way you could walk in without someone (officially, the nurse in charge) asking you who you are. I was actually expelled from hospitals even though I did have a nametag and an approval to work there.

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Interesting. Are these bigger city hospitals? I've visited people in several hospitals and you just walk in. Unless you actually go up to a counter to ask for help, you're free to roam. Sure, some areas are off limits. You can't go into the ER patient area without someone opening the door, and I'm sure the surgery section is off limits. But you can walk to a patient's room, the maternity ward, the cafeteria, etc. In fact, our local hospital has a pretty decent cafeteria. It's nothing fancy, but it's relatively cheap (cash only) and decent food. There are definitely people that just go there for lunch.

I’m referring to stuff zone. Most hospitals would obviously have public access areas.

At the hospital where my wife gave birth, they gave wristbands with some sort of sensor in them to spouses, partners, etc. The only way (for civilians, I assume) in to the maternity ward would open for you if you had one. It wouldn't if you didn't.

There were some other precautions they told us about to prevent someone coming in and snatching a newborn but it's been too many years to remember them.

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