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A patient's bill of rights is a list of guarantees for those receiving medical care. It may take the form of a law or a non-binding declaration. Typically a patient's bill of rights guarantees patients information, fair treatment, and autonomy over medical decisions, among other rights.
The Platt Report, formerly known as the Welfare of Sick Children in Hospital (Ministry of Health, 1959), [1] was a report that was the result of research into the welfare of children who were undergoing medical treatment within the UK and to make suggestions that could be passed on to the hospital authorities that would improve their welfare during hospital visits.
The admitting staff discuss the reasons for admission with the patient and their "care partners" and what health criteria are required for the patient's discharge. "Care partners" are then intricately involved with the patient's care by their entire attending healthcare team, including physicians, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and more.
Many patients, formerly warehoused in institutions, were released into the community. However, not all communities have had the facilities or expertise to deal with them. [5] In many cases, patients wound up in adult homes or with their families, or homeless in large cities, [6] [7] and without the mental health care they needed. [8]
In short, a medical social worker provides services in three domains: intake and psychosocial assessment, case management and supportive therapy, and discharge planning and ongoing care that extends after hospitalization. They are also involved in patient and staff education, as well as with policy research for health programs. [4]
Phil Lucas, a 32-year-old Suboxone patient, said he tried local NA meetings but no longer attends. “They acted like I was still a heroin addict basically,” he said, adding that people at the meetings kept asking him when he was going to get sober. Diana Sholler, 43, another Suboxone patient in Northern Kentucky, attends local AA meetings.
Project Re-ED, the Project on the Re-Education of Emotionally Disturbed Children, is a program to provide effective and affordable mental health services for children.The program focuses on teaching a child effective ways of acting in and responding to the child's social groups (family, schools, peer groups) and also working with those social groups to help them provide a more supportive ...
Prosecutors accuse these companies of overbilling for care that isn’t required, refusing to discharge patients who improve and enrolling people who aren’t dying. Some people receiving the Medicare hospice benefit, which pays all hospice costs provided patients meet a set of criteria that indicate death is imminent, were healthy enough to ...