Description
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize EMTALA as a frequently cited deficiency for hospitals.
- Recall that CMS has a manual on EMTALA that all hospitals that accept Medicare must follow.
- Describe the requirement that hospitals must maintain a central log.
- Discuss the hospital’s requirement to maintain a list of the specific names of physicians who are on call to evaluate emergency department patients.
- Describe the CMS requirements on what must be in the EMTALA sign.
- Describe the hospital’s requirements regarding a minor who is brought to the ED by a non-parent for a medical screening exam.
- Discuss when the hospital must complete a certification of false labor.
Agenda:
- On-call physician issues
- Community Call Plan (CCP)
- Simultaneous on-call
- Elective surgeries and on-call
- Sending a representative
- Telemedicine and on-call
- Response times
- Central log
- Special responsibilities
- Meaning of “comes to the ED”
- Definition of hospital property
- EMTALA and Outpatients
- Medical screening exam
- Certification of false labor
- Born alive law and EMTALA
- Minor child request for treatment
- Ambulance and EMTALA
- Telemetry
- When diversion is allowed
- Parking of patients
- Helipad
- Qualified Medical Provider (QMP)
- Definition of Inpatient
- Moses Case
- Waiver of sanctions
- Requests for medications
- Blood alcohol tests
- Emergency medical condition and stabilization
- OB patients and MEC
- Born-Alive Infant Protection Act and MLN clarification
- Transfer and transfer forms
- Behavioral health patients
- QIO role with EMTALA.
Who Should Attend:-
Emergency department managers, medical director, ED physicians and nurses and ED education staff; OB managers and nurses; behavioral health director and staff; CNO, nursing supervisors, nurse educators and staff nurses; outpatient directors; compliance officers, legal counsel, and risk manager; directors of hospital-based ambulance services; director of registration and staff; on-call physicians, chief medical officer, chief financial officer, patient safety officer and Joint Commission coordinator.
