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Report urges government to rethink outdated regulations on hospitals
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31837
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , medicaid , government (linguistics) , quality (philosophy) , public administration , health care , inpatient care , medicine , business , nursing , political science , medical emergency , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
A number of regulations affecting inpatient psychiatric facilities achieve little to improve the quality of patient care and reflect conditions from a bygone era of inpatient treatment, states a report commissioned by the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH). Leaders in the psychiatric hospital community hope the report's conclusions will add momentum to regulatory reform at a time when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched an effort to reduce bureaucratic requirements.