Synonyms EMTALA regulations ; Transferring injured or critically ill patients ; Transfers Definition Transferring a critically ill or injured patient from one institution to another has special significance. Common sense and medical prof... Gregory J. Jurkovich M.D. - Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Me...
Tammelleo, A. David
“At the time I was advocating for the law, I was warned by ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) colleagues that once the government got involved in regulating inter-hospital transfers, it wouldn’t stop at only restricting the most severe acts of patient dumping. With my youthful ...
Legislation requires Medicare-participating emergency departments to give emergency care to everyone even if they don't have insurance, but violations of the law may be underreported, according to researchers. The researchers interviewed hospitals,hospitalassociations and patient safety organizations to gain ...
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By doing so, it defined for the first time a standard of medical care and legislated how hospitals and physicians were required to practice medicine. With the passage of EMTALA, Congress effectively defined hospital emergency departments as a community resource and essentially created a federal right...
QMPs performing MSEs via telehealth may be on campus (and using telehealth to self-contain) or offsite (due to staffing shortages), but in both cases, the QMP must conduct the MSE within their scope of practice under state law and as approved by the hospital’s bylaws, rules, or regulat...
W Toreki,P Toreki - 《Trends Health Care Law Ethics》 被引量: 42发表: 1992年 EMTALA and the Ethical Delivery of Hospital Emergency Services This article examines the role and impact of EMTALA on the ethical delivery of hospital-based emergency services, primarily through close inspection of th...
PR: Pt. with chest pains discharged from ER dies: does EMTALA apply to non-hospital providers?(Hospital Law Decisions of Note)Tammelleo, A. David
the philosophical strengths of this aspect of the law quickly ran afoul of health care financing realities. under the new mandate, hospital emergency departments were acknowledged as a key part of the federal safety net, but lack of a fiscal strategy led to an increasing rate of emergency ...