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Patient dumping or homeless dumping is the practice of hospitals and emergency services inappropriately releasing homeless or indigent patients to public hospitals or onto the streets instead of transferring them to a homeless shelter or retaining them.
The ambulance squad's duty towards the patient begins with patient contact and generally ends with transfer to the emergency department of the receiving hospital. However, emergency calls may terminate in other ways. For example, an ambulance service may cancel their own services if the patient becomes violent, compromising scene safety.
Transitional care refers to the coordination and continuity of health care during a movement from one healthcare setting to either another or to home, called care transition, between health care practitioners and settings as their condition and care needs change during the course of a chronic or acute illness.
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Case management focuses on delivering personalized services to patients to improve their care, and involves four steps: Referral of new patients (perhaps from another service if the client has relocated to a new area out of previous jurisdiction, or if client no longer meets the target of previous service, such as requiring a greater level of ...
The Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which provided federal assistance for the construction of community hospitals, established nondiscrimination requirements for institutions that received such federal assistance—including the requirement that a "reasonable volume" of free emergency care be provided for community members who could not pay—for a period for 20 years after the hospital's construction.
The PAN Foundation operates financial assistance, advocacy, and education initiatives to help accelerate access to care for those who need it most. Through its more than 80 disease-specific financial assistance programs, PAN serves well over 100,000 patients each year from every US state and territory. [ 4 ]
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