Last April, President Obama called on the US Department of Health and Human Services to develop new rules that "would ensure that hopsitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid respect the rights of patients to designate visitors, regardless of whether the visitors are legally related to the patient," and that hospitals do not deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability."
The new rules will be included in the Medicare Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, 42 CFR Parts 482 and 485 subpart F, respectively, and are expected to be published later this fall. To read more . . .
Given the Nebraska Catholic Conference's belief that any form of therapeutic aid to people who are morally objectionable is, at the very least, tacit approval of immorality; and given the therapeutic benefits for a patient who has visitors; I can't help but wonder if they are working on a "compromise" here too.
