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Failure to control pain or to provide health care in accordance with
a patients wishes is a matter of consumer protection, according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. He says he hopes the 49 other attorneys general in the United States will see matters the same way.
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Attorneys general should play a role in advising state agencies and educating others about how laws and policies related to end-of-life care should be enforced, especially if they seem to be at odds with patient rights. The most salient example of this conflict has been the ongoing battle between end-of-life care advocates and law enforcement agencies.
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Although Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson focused his year-long presidency of the National Association of Attorneys General on improving end-of-life care and urging his colleagues to take a more active role in protecting terminally ill patients, several of his colleagues are at the forefront of changing state policies and affecting provider and consumer behavior.
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Recent traffic on end-of-life professional listservs, presentations at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization conference in September, and new projects under way in communities from coast to coast attest to hospice houses continued attraction for hospices seeking ways to establish and operate houses of their own.
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Finding the secret to successful retention of home health aides is not easy, but HomeCare Options, a Paterson, NJ, agency with 350 aides with an average tenure of eight years, may be holding the key to the success other agencies want.
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To provide you with critical information on the updated regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Thomson American Health Consultants offers "New EMTALA Regulations: Are They Too Good to be True?" an audio conference on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., ET.
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"EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance" from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.
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As Mindy Owen, RN, CRN, CCM, travels around the country for the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC), shes always surprised to find how few case managers are familiar with the standards of practice under which they operate.
