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	PURPOSE: To ensure medical care and consultation is always available for patients. POLICY: Hospice shall seek medical consultation when changes in the patient's condition warrant such assistance and the patient's attending physician is inaccessible or unwilling to provide medical consultation. PROCEDURE: When the patient's attending physician is inaccessible or unwilling to provide medical consultation, Hospice staff will contact the Hospice medical director regarding changes in patient's condition that require medical advisement. The Hospice medical director will provide medical...
Second excerpt:
	...medical director regarding changes in patient's condition that require medical advisement. The Hospice medical director will provide medical consultation or try to get such from the patient's physician. 1 SUBJECT:MEDICAL CONSULTATIONREFERENCE #2129PAGE: 1DEPARTMENT: HOSPICE OF: 1EFFECTIVE: APPROVED BY: REVISED: ...