Rules finalized last year empower patients to designate their own visitors, including same-sex partners
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2011. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidance to support enforcement of rules that protect hospital patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner. These rules, finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November, apply to all…
