2 Responses to “Federal Government Declares Emergency Physicians Incapable of Performing Medical Screening Exam for Psychiatric Patients in AnMed Lawsuit”
“The patients — most of whom were suicidal and/or homicidal and suffered from serious mental illness — were held in the ED from six to 38 days. In each of these incidents, AnMed had on-call psychiatrists and beds available in its psychiatric unit to evaluate and stabilize the patients. But it but did not provide examination or treatment by a psychiatrist, according to the settlement agreement.”…
…”AnMed’s policy was that if a patient should be involuntarily committed and did not have financial resources, the attending physician could write an order for the local mental health center to evaluate the patient for commitment to the state mental health system after the patient is medically stable, according to the settlement.”
2 Responses to “Federal Government Declares Emergency Physicians Incapable of Performing Medical Screening Exam for Psychiatric Patients in AnMed Lawsuit”
October 23, 2017
Charles A. Pilcher MD FACEPI look forward to hearing “the rest of the story.” Something is truly amiss here.
December 10, 2017
bobHere ya go:
modernhealthcare.com/article/20170705/NEWS/170709977
“The patients — most of whom were suicidal and/or homicidal and suffered from serious mental illness — were held in the ED from six to 38 days. In each of these incidents, AnMed had on-call psychiatrists and beds available in its psychiatric unit to evaluate and stabilize the patients. But it but did not provide examination or treatment by a psychiatrist, according to the settlement agreement.”…
…”AnMed’s policy was that if a patient should be involuntarily committed and did not have financial resources, the attending physician could write an order for the local mental health center to evaluate the patient for commitment to the state mental health system after the patient is medically stable, according to the settlement.”