Bassett Can’t Turn Away
Patients Without Masks
All Must Be Treated, But Visitors,
Staff, All Others Must Don Them
COOPERSTOWN – Though all employees, visitors and vendors are required to wear a mask in Bassett Healthcare facilities, the hospital confirmed that no patient will be denied treatment for refusing to wear a mask.
“It is still the exception that anyone coming to the hospital or clinics refuses to wear a mask,” said Karen Huxtable-Hooker, public relations director. “But Bassett cannot turn away patients who refuse to wear a mask. We must provide treatment and care to all.”
Masks are offered at the door to those who arrive without one, and if the patient still declines, employees advise the patient of the risk and the precautions that Bassett has put in place to protect all from COVID-19.
“If they still refuse we assure they get to their destination as directly as possible,” she said. “Everyone else is in the appropriate personal protective equipment.”
However, she notes that the hospital can turn away visitors, support and companion persons who decline to wear a mask.
“Most people understand the wearing of a mask promotes safe care and prevention of COVID-19,” she said.
So, psychopath, are you denying a patient the RIGHT to have an advocate there? And did you know that a mask is a medical procedure so if you FORCE anyone to wear one you are accepting their medical care? Thereby making you their medical provider (including visitors) giving them the right to refuse? Ask your risk department. Have fun😉
This is crazy! How about setting up a tent outside for these misguided folks?
I have been scouring the internet for the last 24 hours to get a confirmed answer to my question. Can a doctor that you have an appointment with refuse to treat you if you have a medical condition that prevents you from wearing a mask? I had my primary doctor write me a note just to try to eliminate confrontations. I’ve had two appointments at this Clinic with a different doctor and had no problem seeing that doctor without a mask. I also have that letter in my file. Can this doctor refuse to treat me when I have a medical condition that prevents me from wearing a mask and documentation to prove it. I live in Illinois. I believe I have a lawsuit.
Can a dialysis facility deny treatment to a patient if they do not wear a mask?
I have PTSD style anxiety from being stuck under semi truck a doctor at Family Care just refuse to treat me even though I told him I had PTSD and made me leave because I could not put on a map is that legal in the state of Georgia
No hospital in this country has the authority to make you do anything! They are strictly a business and they simply would not operate without sick people! It is a “sickhouse.” For the sick!! All we are to hospitals is a cash cow. Make a nation sick and it will become dependent on the government!
Just walked out of a hospital without getting the tests I needed for my liver and kidneys. They demanded I wear a mask. I said I would not.
I can’t believe how selfish people can be. Stop being a brat and protect others (hospital staff working hard to get everyone better and immunocompromised patients alike as well as all others). I work as an entry screener lead in the ER. The ER has been so packed that some patients sit on the waiting room floor. Patients often tell me they’re covid positive as I’m screening them. It’s not uncommon for a line of 6 or 7 people coming in back to back in a row to all be covid positive. And I still deal with so many who refuse to wear a mask and give me a difficult time as if I made the rules and have the ability to make an exception.