EMTALA Scenario Analysis

 

No abstract APA Style, this assignment will be check by instructor for Plagiarism- write an analysis of 1,150 words of the situation how it is impacted by EMTALA and what decision you will make as the administrator with rationale and thought process.

 

( The Emergency Medical Tratment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)

You are the administrator on call for a local hospital and you receive a call at 2:00 a.m. from another local hospital regarding a patient with a broken upper arm. The ED physician’s assistant is calling to arrange an EMTALA transfer from his hospital to yours, but the orthopedic physician on call at your hospital is refusing to accept the transfer, stating that the patient doesn’t need a higher level of care. When you ask him about that, he tells you the fracture is not displaced, and can be splinted and seen in the office. The ED physician at your hospital is very nervous about the possibility of an EMTALA violation.