May
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Hospitals Must Adopt a Comprehensive Visitation Policy

By LGBT Cancer on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Out With Cancer asks all Hospitals and Health Care facilities to carry out their commitment to quality patient care by adopting a comprehensive visitation policy that:

1.  Affirms all patients’ rights to have visitors;
2.  Includes same sex-partners and their children in its definition of family and does not restrict visitors to biological family members;
3.  Outlines a clear process for determining when visitors will be restricted and how that will be communicated; and 
4.  Includes a grievance procedure that can be acted on quickly in an emergency situation.

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