President Obama issued a memorandum on April 15, 2010 directing Health and Human Services (HHS) to craft rules that require all hospitals that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funding nearly every hospital in America to protect the visitation and healthcare decision-making rights of LGBT persons. Additionally, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has announced new, fully inclusive patient non-discrimination standards as part of their accreditation process.
Kaiser Permanente updated its Patients Bill of Rights to fully protect LGBT patients and their families from discrimination. These changes, which took effect in Kaiser Permanentes network of 36 hospitals, make Kaiser Permanente the first large health network to have a fully inclusive non-discrimination policy for LGBT persons. They are also the first health network to achieve Top Performer status in the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundations Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). The index includes the following criteria:
+Patient Non-Discrimination Policies
-Patients Bill of Rights and/or non-discrimination policy includes sexual orientation
-Patients Bill of Rights and/or non-discrimination policy includes gender identity or expression or gender identity
+Visitation Policies-Visitation policies grant same-sex couples the same visitation access as different-sex couples and next of kin
-Visitation policies grant same-sex parents the same visitation access as different-sex parents for their minor children
+Cultural Competency Training and Client Services
-Provide cultural competency training addressing healthcare issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
+Employment Policies and Benefits
-Equal employment opportunity policy includes sexual orientation
-Equal employment opportunity policy includes gender identity or expression or gender identify.
**Questions to Answer in this Assignment: All questions must be completely answered! **
**Introduction must be a full paragraph
**Summarize 4 components of the index above (couple of paragraph)
**Do you think that other criteria should be included as part of the index? If so, what would you add? (must be a couple of paragraphs)
**How can association policies or employer policies be used to supplement legal requirements if an organization would like to protect its employees or clients from discrimination? Source: Human Rights Campaign. https://www.hrc.org/resources/healthcare-equality-index ( Must be a couple of paragraphs)
**In addition to answering the questions above, write a policy for your organization in regard to non-discrimination for LGBT patients.* (couple of paragraphs)
*** conclusion (Must be a full paragraphs)
Your paper should be 4 full pages long and contain 4 references. Please use the guidelines above.
Please use the website provided as a source. scroll down and click Download the HEI 2020 Report
https://www.hrc.org/resources/healthcare-equality-index
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