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Last accessed July 17, 2014. 2014 Statutory Report: Patient Dumping 56 Managing payments from the federal government to states and relaxing the IMD exclusion When states maintained mental hospitals, they paid the cost of care for their mentally disabled residents.
Professor Van Tassel agreed that adopting best practices is critical in addressing patient dumping. Specifically, she believes that hospitals nationwide should adopt uniform written protocols, based on clinical practice guidelines, to avoid disparate treatment of patients with a psychiatric disability. 204
It was not until the early 1980s that the problem of patient dumping began to receive national attention. It was reported that hospitals refused medical care to timated 250,000 patients an es annually because they were uninsured or lacked the ability to pay. 24
From the research conducted for us by our staff, and from the materials and presentations of our expert panels, it appears to me that the victims of patient dumping fall into three distinct categories: The mentally disabled The homeless The undocumented immigrant
LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a lawsuit against two chiropractic clinics, 501 Pain & Rehab, LLC, located in Conway, and 501 Pain and Rehab Family Clinic of Russellville, LLC, located in Russellville, as well as Dr. John D’Onofrio and Donny McCuien, who are believed to be involved in the ownership and operation of the clinics, for discarding patients’ personal and medical information in a public park near Mayflower. The lawsuit alleges the Defendants violated the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) by failing to secure and protect their patients’ personal information from unauthorized access or use and failing to properly dispose of the personal information as required by law. The complaint also alleges the Defendants’ acts were unconscionable business practices that violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA).
The investigation, conducted by the Office of the Attorney General, revealed that approximately 271 files, created between 2016 and 2018, were discarded in the park by the Defendants.
This lawsuit aims to hold these bad actors accountable for their reckless behavior.”. In November 2020, Mayflower city employees arrived to work in Palarm Park, a public park near the Arkansas River, when they noticed a truck parked near a wooded area.
To report child abuse or neglect in Arkansas, you must call the Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-482-5964 (T DD: 1-800-843-6349). You can make a report to the hotline without giving your personal information. Please give as much information about the incident, the victim, and the alleged perpetrator as possible.
To get a copy of the report, send a written, notarized request, along with a check or money order in the amount of $10.00, to get a copy of your report. The written request must give your name and address and the names of the children involved. You should send the written request to: Arkansas Department of Human Services.
What if the Report is Not True? If the investigator decides that the concerns reported are not true, and there are no other concerns that need attention, then the investigation will be closed and nothing else is needed. If you are the caretaker identified in the report, you can request a copy of the report.
Just call the Arkansas Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-482-5964. You’ll need to be as specific as possible about what your concerns are – the more information we have, the better we are able to respond. If possible, have the child’s name, address, alleged offender’s name and address, and details about the maltreatment.
At the completion of the investigation (usually within 45 days), the investigator will decide if the concerns made in the original report were true. The investigator also may find other concerns in addition to those already reported.
If the family cannot or does not protect the children, court action may be taken. Just because a case is open, does not mean a child will come into foster care. Often, DCFS serves children and families safely in their homes.
If possible, have the child’s name, address, alleged offender’s name and address, and details about the maltreatment. If you wish, you can remain anonymous, but it is always helpful to provide your contact information in case more information is needed later.
Notably, patients severely ill from pneumonia, COPD or asthma "can generally be cared for in hospitals with standard intensive care capabilities," researchers say, so transfers to other facilities may not meet the law's threshold for "appropriate" transfers.
The findings indicate that more than three decades after the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act took effect, lower-income patients still face unequal treatment in emergency care settings. The law requires hospitals to screen anyone who comes into their emergency department and stabilize anyone with an emergency medical condition, ...
Using a smaller sample of hospitals and patients, researchers found that compared with privately insured patients, uninsured patients were more likely to be transferred from for-profit hospitals and less likely to be transferred from nonprofit hospitals, though researchers said further study is needed to confirm those conclusions.