Showing posts with label hospital visits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospital visits. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Obama Administration Finalizes New Rules on ‘Equal Visitation Rights’ for Same-Sex Partners of Hospital Patients

CNS News.com (conservative)
Thursday, November 18, 2010
By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - In another bow to the homosexual community, the Obama administration on Wednesday issued news rules for hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid: Patients must be allowed to say who may visit them, and that includes same-sex partners.
The new rules stem from President Obama’s directive of April 15, 2010, in which he instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to develop rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that would prohibit those hospitals from denying visitation on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

Full Story: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-administration-finalizes-new-rules