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kalikshama -> Petition: Universal Health Services: End discrimination against gay couples in your hospitals (9/8/2012 8:00:44 AM)
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Petitioning Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer, Universal Health Services, Inc.
Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated their rules for hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid. The new rules give patients the authority to designate a representative, including a same-sex partner, to make informed care decisions for loved ones who have become incapacitated.
It's time for Universal Health Services to ensure that each and every hospital it owns and operates complies to the new laws recognizing visitation and decision making rights of gay couples.
Recently, a lesbian couple from Nevada checked into the Spring Valley Hospital with pregnancy complications. But despite being in a legal, state-recognized domestic partnership, they were told that without a power of attorney, they wouldn't be able to make any medical decisions for their family. A hospital employee told them that was the hospital's policy.
The Spring Valley Hospital is one of hundreds of hospitals owned and operated by Universal Health Services. It's time for you to ensure that each and every hospital you own and operate complies to the new laws recognizing visitation and decision making rights of gay couples.
Because no family should have to go through what that poor couple in Nevada did -- ever again.
Sign the petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/universal-health-services-end-discrimination-against-gay-couples-in-your-hospitals-2#
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