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2. Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act

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   The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 is a United States federal statute enacted by the 114th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 19, 2016. It modified the Controlled Substances Act, which requires the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to identify "imminent danger to ...

3. Patient Self-Determination Act - Wikipedia

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   The Patient Self-Determination Act ( PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Effective on December 1, 1991, this legislation required many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health ...

4. Patients' rights - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Patient rights consist of enforceable duties that healthcare professionals and healthcare business persons owe to patients to provide them with certain services or benefits. [1] When such services or benefits become rights instead of simply privileges, then a patient can expect to receive them and can expect the support of people who ...

5. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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   A surrogate decision maker, also known as a health care proxy or as agents, is an advocate for incompetent patients. If a patient is unable to make decisions for themselves about personal care, a surrogate agent must make decisions for them. If there is a durable power of attorney for health care, the agent appointed by that document is ...

6. Healthcare proxy - Wikipedia

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   Healthcare proxy. In the field of medicine, a healthcare proxy (commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) with which a patient (primary individual) appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on behalf of the patient, when the patient is incapable of making and executing the healthcare decisions stipulated in the ...

7. Wooster Community Hospital breaks ground on Patient Access ...

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   April 24, 2024 at 5:29 AM. Wooster Community Hospital is taking another step into the future. Planning for the Patient Access Emergency Center actually began about six years ago, hospital CEO Bill ...