02-08-2009, 06:42 PM
Doc wrote:
[quote=Black]
[quote=Doc]
HIPPA has nothing to do with visitation.
Not true.
HIPPA has nothing whatsoever to do with visitation.
How can you let someone to the patient's bedside without effectively sharing information about that person's condition?
I continue to submit that, barring evidence to the contrary, the hospital's main concern was to be in compliance with the letter of the law, and they probably bent the rules when they allowed the partner to bedside for last rites.