Access to Health Care Sample Clauses

Access to Health Care. As a non-profit Christian ministry, we make every effort to ensure that members have access to high-quality wellness services by controlling costs, minimizing administrative overhead and exercising good stewardship of medical resources. Our MemberCare Assistance Program is designed to help low-income individuals and families sustain their CHC membership to ensure uninterrupted and unencumbered access to our services. Ten percent of gross revenue is dedicated to our MemberCare Assistance Program.
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Access to Health Care. WCDOC shall provide inmates access to adequate health care in a timely manner. WCDOC shall ensure that medical requests are logged, tracked, and responded to under the appropriate standard of care.
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Access to Health Care. 35. Sufficient medically trained intake staff shall be provided to assure that detainees are medically screened within four hours of entry into Central Booking, unless a detainee displays obvious symptoms that make it apparent that more rapid screening is required. 36. An appropriate medical practitioner shall document in the detainee’s medical record the diagnosis and treatment plan, within a reasonable time not to exceed seven (7) days, for all detainees who are referred for further medical attention in the screening process. 37. Sick call requests shall be triaged immediately upon receipt according to policies that require that requests for sick call indicating conditions that require an appointment with a registered nurse shall be seen within 48 hours on weekdays and within 72 hours on weekends and holidays. Detainees with urgent or emergent conditions will be seen more quickly as medically necessary. 38. LPNs and unlicensed staff shall not be used to triage sick call requests. Unlicensed staff shall take not xxxxx xxxxx or perform other similar tasks that contribute to evaluation of a patient. LPNs may take xxxxx xxxxx and perform other similar tasks that contribute to evaluation of a patient but shall not undertake the independent evaluation of a patient in a manner that violates Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Standards of Practice for Licensed Practical Nurses, COMAR § 10.27.02.E. 39. The disease-specific nursing protocols shall assure that RNs do not attempt to diagnose or treat beyond their professional scope of practice. 40. When a sick call encounter with a provider results in a referral to another internal health care practitioner, that referral shall result in an appointment within a reasonable period of time in light of the medical need. All such appoints for conditions that are neither urgent nor emergent shall take place within five days. 41. A scheduling system shall be implemented that assures timely rescheduling when scheduled appointments are missed for any reason. Additionally, any refusals of treatment or missed treatments shall be fully documented. 42. Sufficient custody staff shall be available to ensure appropriate transportation to sick call. 43. An appropriate staffing plan shall be developed and implemented that requires that sufficient medical staff be available to complete triage of sick call requests as required in ¶ 37 above and to see immediately all detainees who need immediate review. 44. Policy shall be develope...
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Access to Health Care a. LCJ shall ensure inmates have timely and adequate access to appropriate health care. b. LCJ shall ensure that the medical request ("sick call") process for inmates is adequate and provides inmates with adequate access to medical care. The sick call process shall include: (1) written medical and mental health care slips available in English, Spanish, and other languages, as needed; (2) a confidential collection method in which the request slips are collected by Qualified Medical Staff seven days per week; (3) opportunity for illiterate inmates and inmates who have physical or cognitive disabilities to access medical and mental health care; and (4) opportunity for all inmates, irrespective of primary language, to access medical and mental health care. c. LCJ shall ensure that the sick call process includes logging, tracking, and timely responses by Qualified Medical Staff. The logging procedure shall include documentation of the date and summary of each request for care, the date the inmate was seen, the name of the person who saw him or her, the disposition of the medical or mental health visit (e.g., referral; whether inmate scheduled for acute care visit), and, if follow-up care is necessary, the date and time of the inmate's next appointment. LCJ shall document the reason for and disposition of the medical or mental health care request in the inmate's medical record. d. LCJ shall develop and implement an effective system for screening medical requests within 24 hours of submission. LCJ shall ensure sick call requests are appropriately prioritized based upon the seriousness of the medical issue. e. LCJ shall ensure that evaluation and treatment of inmates in response to a sick call request occurs in a clinical setting. f. LCJ shall ensure that there is an adequate number of correctional officers to escort inmates to and from medical units to ensure that inmates requiring treatment have timely access to appropriate medical care. g. LCJ shall ensure that Qualified Medical Staff make daily rounds in the isolation areas to give inmates in isolation adequate opportunities to contact and discuss medical and mental health concerns with Qualified Medical Staff in a setting that affords as much privacy as reasonable security precautions will allow. During rounds, Qualified Medical Staff will assess inmates for new clinical findings, such as deterioration of the inmate's condition. h. LCJ shall revise its co-pay system in terms of amount and waivers and such pol...
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