Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Patient dumping : background, protections, and the mentally ill / Tabitha E. Rivers, editor
Published New York : Nova Publishers, 2015
©2015

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Public health: practices, methods and policies
Public health: practices, methods and policies.
Contents PATIENT DUMPING BACKGROUND, PROTECTIONS, AND THE MENTALLY ILL ; PATIENT DUMPING BACKGROUND, PROTECTIONS, AND THE MENTALLY ILL ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 PATIENT DUMPING* ; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ; Background ; Briefing Outcomes ; Recommendations ; SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION ; Patient Dumping: A Historical Perspective ; The Passage of EMTALA ; Patient Dumping: Recent Developments ; SECTION 2. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS TO ENFORCE EMTALA; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ; Office of the Inspector General ; Office for Civil Rights
Remedies Enforcement Responsibilities of CMS and OIG ; Enforcement Responsibilities of OCR ; SECTION 3. CURRENT REGULATIONS AND EMTALA ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS; Theme 1: The Lack of Adequate Data Collection; Theme 2: The Amount of Regulatory Oversight ; Theme 3: Non-punitive Methods for Hospital Reporting ; Theme 4: Following the Money ; Theme 5: Increased Training and Education ; SECTION 4. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ; Theme 1: The Lack of Adequate Data Collection; Findings ; Recommendations ; Theme 2: The Amount of Regulatory Oversight ; Findings ; Recommendation
Theme 3: Non-punitive Methods for Hospital Reporting Findings ; Recommendations ; Theme 4: Following the Money ; Findings ; Recommendation ; Theme 5: Increased Training and Education ; Findings ; Recommendations ; Theme 6: Stabilization and EMTALA ; Findings ; Recommendations ; Theme 7: Learning from Best Practices ; Findings ; Recommendations ; Theme 8: Protocols and Discharge Planning ; Findings ; Recommendations ; COMMISSIONER STATEMENTS AND REBUTTALS ; Statement of Chairman Martin R. Castro joined by Commissioner Michael Yaki ; PATIENT DUMPING
Statement of Commissioner Roberta Achtenberg with the Concurrences of Chairman Martin R. Castro and Commissioner Michael Yaki Statement of Commissioner David Kladney ; The Purpose of EMTALA ; Stabilization and Discharge ; Long Wait Times and Emergency Department Closings ; Solutions: The Way Forward ; Expanding the Definition of Emergency ; The Definition of Stability ; Alternative-Destination Programs ; Establishment of Care and Discharge Protocols ; Managing Payments from the Federal Government to States and Relaxing the IMD Exclusion; Advances in Data Collection
Investigation of Hospitals Conclusion ; Statement and Rebuttal of Commissioner Gail Heriot ; APPENDIX A: EMTALA RELEVANT STATUTES ; End Notes ; Chapter 2 STATEMENT OF MARILYN DAHL, DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF ACUTE CARE SERVICES, SURVEY AND CERTIFICATION GROUP, CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES. BRIEFING ON ''PATIENT DUMPING''∗ ; HOSPITAL OBLIGATIONS UNDER EMTALA ; Obligations of Hospitals with Emergency Departments ; Obligations of Hospitals with Specialized Capabilities ; CMS EMTALA ENFORCEMENT PROCESS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 23, 2015)
Subject United States. Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
SUBJECT Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (United States) fast
Subject Patient dumping -- Law and legislation -- United States
Emergency medical services -- Law and legislation -- United States
Mental health facilities -- Admission and discharge -- United States
Patient Transfer -- legislation & jurisprudence
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Emergency medical services -- Law and legislation
Mental health facilities -- Admission and discharge
Patient dumping -- Law and legislation
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781634837279
1634837274