Hospital and Physician Liable Under EMTALA for Transferring Suicidal and Intoxicated Patient to Jail for Protective Custody
Carlisle v. Frisbie Mem'I Hosp., 888 A.2d 405 (N.H. 2005)
A recently completed national survey of hospitals found that 55% of all hospital admissions (excluding pregnancy and childbirth) in 2003 entered the hospital through the hospital's emergency department, a total of 16 million patients. The fifth most often given reason for admission was mental health and substance abuse disorders (5.8% or nearly 1,000,000 patients, with 387,500 patients admitted for the treatment of mood disorders). Anne Elixhauser & Pamela Owens, Reasons for Being Admitted to the Hospital Through the Emergency Department, 2003, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (H·CUP) (Feb. 2006), http://www.hcup us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs.jsp...