Visitation victory within reach!
Back in April, President Obama introduced a hospital visitation memo, to ensure visitation rights for all patients. While the proposed rule is a great attempt, it still needs improvement in four key ways:
It should insure visitation protection
1) for legally appointed health care agents,
2) without discrimination on the basis of marital/relationship status,
3) for emergency patients, and
4) for patients who have not designated visitors and/or completed advanced directives.
We spent considerable time working on our public comment, incorporating some of AtMP’s members’ traumatic hospital visitation stories. It is now available to read and provide inspiration – we urge YOU to tell the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) your story! The deadline to submit a comment is August 27 – don’t wait, show your support now!
