Civil rights as patient experience: How healthcare organizations handle discrimination complaints

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The nondiscrimination clause of the Affordable Care Act, known as Section 1557, formally expanded patients' civil rights in nearly every healthcare setting United States 2010. Regulations required organizations to name a person handle grievances and set up an internal grievance process for resolving them. Drawing on interviews with 58 handlers, this study examines how respond discrimination complaints. We find that incorporated new right into preexisting complaint procedures, treating possible patient violations experience problems. Grievance handlers smooth over problems using customer service strategies. These procedures diminish efforts policymakers expand protections healthcare. For provoke real organizational change, complaints would need be handled by professionals attuned consciousness.

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عنوان ژورنال: Law & Society Review

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1540-5893', '0023-9216']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12554