Hi Folks,

 

For those of you intending hospital births, you should all be armed with this information!  (Tara, this will come in handy as a reference for the Babies R Us Making Your Birth Plan class!!

 

 

From the site:

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act is a statute which governs when and how a patient may be (1) refused treatment or (2) transferred from one hospital to another when he is in an unstable medical condition.

EMTALA was passed as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, and it is sometimes referred to as "the COBRA law". In fact, a number of different laws come under that general name. Another very familiar provision, also referred to under the COBRA name, is the statute governing continuation of medical insurance benefits after termination of employment.

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I strongly encourage each of you to read up and become well-versed on this very significant law! 

-Rachel