South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Subchapter 61-16 - Minimum Standards for Licensing Hospitals and Institutional General Infirmaries
Sec2 61-16.800 - REQUIREMENTS OF THE LEWIS BLACKMAN ACT (I)
Section 61-16.801 - Compliance
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
In order to be in compliance with The Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Act, hospitals are required to:
A. Identify all clinical staff, clinical trainees, medical students, interns, and resident physicians as such with identification badges that include their names, their departments, and their job or trainee titles.
B. Institute a procedure whereby a patient may request that a nurse call his or her attending physician regarding the patient's personal medical care.
C. If the patient is able to communicate with and desires to call his or her attending physician or designee, upon the patient's request, the nurse must provide the patient with the telephone number and assist the patient in placing the call.
D. Provide a mechanism, available at all times, and the method for accessing it, through which a patient may access prompt assistance for the resolution of the patient's personal medical care concerns.
E. Establish procedures for the implementation of the mechanism providing for initiation of contact with administrative or supervisory clinical staff who shall promptly assess the urgent patient care concern and cause the patient care concern to be addressed.
F. Provide to each patient prior to, or at the time of the patient's admission to the hospital for inpatient care or outpatient surgery, written information describing the general role of clinical trainees, medical students, interns, and resident physicians in patient care.
