Bumblefoot has a "ZAC." Humans can get "HACs."

A "Zoo Acquired Condition" is the Palliative Penguin's definition of a ZAC.  Bumblefoot got his ZAC at the zoo.  Bumblefoot did not arrive at the zoo with bumblefoot.  He got his pododermititis there.  No one who is responsible for animals at a zoo is happy about ZACs.

Humans can get "Hospital Acquired Conditions."  The folks at Medicare and Medicaid who control the money label an HAC as the near unforgivable, and certainly not fund-able, "Never Event."  A bed sore is only one of the Never Events.  There are lots of HACs.  No one likes them.  HACs cost hospitals money, probably righteously, and hurt patients, worsen their conditions or kill them.  Nothing good ever comes of a Never Event.

The concept can be extended to all caregivers, whatever the context.  A HAC can be thought of as well, as a "hospice" acquired condition or it could come to mean a "home" acquired condition.  Whatever the care-giving context, a Never Event is not the event, condition or thing that any responsible person would want to have killed Granny or hastened her death.  The zookeepers  have the same expectations for Bumblefoot.

Bumblefoot's avian vets are planning a medical intervention.