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HOSPITAL VISITATION
LGBT
Friendly Policy in Alabama
May 2013
Children's Hospital, located in
Birmingham, Alabama, has a very inclusive, very LGBT-friendly,
visitation policy regarding patients and their families.
According to their stated policy "family"
is defined as any person who plays a significant role in an individual’s
life. This may include a person who is not legally related to the
individual. Members of "family" include spouses, domestic partners, and
both different-sex and same-sex significant others as well as brothers,
sisters, step-siblings, and half-siblings.
Children’s Hospital does not restrict,
limit or otherwise deny visitation privileges on the basis of race,
color, national origin, religion, sex, an individual's self-conception
as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex,
sexual orientation or disability.
LINK:
Children's Hospital of Alabama
NEW
DIRECTORY
LGBT
Friendly Health Care Facilities
December 2011
Jenna McDavid, of the National LGBT Cancer
Network, is currently developing a directory of LGBT-friendly health
care facilities. And she is seeking your help with this important
project.
She and her organization want to know if
anyone has had good experiences at any of the hospitals or health care
facilities in the area. At this point in their research, they are
trying to fill in some regional gaps and looking for anecdotal evidence
from some of the less populous/less progressive cities and counties in
the U.S. that might lead to less obvious LGBTQ-competent facilities.
Once they receive a good lead from you
about specific locations, Jenna McDavid's group is contacting facilities
to conduct interviews with staff there to find out if they are suitable
for inclusion in their directory. Some of the things they are
looking for include whether the hospital has experience treating LGBT
patients, mandatory sensitivity training or cultural competence
curricula, and non-discrimination policies.
"We must be confident in the referrals
we're making," she says, "and we're hopeful that a combination of
anecdotal evidence and direct interviews with providers will get us to
where we need to be."
If you would like to provide good
information for this directory, contact Jenna McDavid at the National
LGBT Cancer Network
Website:
www.cancer-network.org
NEW
HOSPITAL RULES
Gay Partners
Gain Hospital Visitation Rights
Noel Brinkerhoff / December 2010
“Basic human rights—such as your
ability to choose your own support system in a time of need—must not
be checked at the door of America’s hospitals,” said HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius. “Today’s rules help give ‘full and equal’
rights to all of us to choose whom we want by our bedside when we
are sick.”
The new rules will also affect widows
and widowers who have been unable to receive visits from a friend or
companion. In addition, members of some religious groups will gain
the right to designate someone other than a family member to make
medical decisions.
The rules will go into effect 60 days
after they are published in the
Federal Register.
The change was first announced in
April. It was followed by a period of public review during which
health officials received thousands of comments from patient
advocates, hospitals and other stakeholders before finalizing the
regulations.
LINKS:
All Gov: Gay Patients Gain Hospital Visitation Rights
HOSPITAL VISITATION
Discrimination Against LGBT Patients & Their Families
April 2010
After signing
a memo directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take
steps to address hospital visitation and other health care issues
affecting LGBT families, President Barack Obama called Janice Langbehn
to express his sympathies for the tragic loss of her partner Lisa Pond
and the treatment she suffered.
"The steps that President Obama outlined
are a great leap forward in addressing discrimination affecting LGBT
patients and their families," said Kevin Cathcart, Lambda Legal
Executive Director. "These measures are intended to ensure that no
family will have to experience what the Langbehn-Pond family did that
night at Jackson Memorial Hospital. We are so proud of Janice and her
family — she stood up and told her story and it made a difference."
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