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More Hospitals Protect Gay Patients--But Not Staff--From Discrimination

On the heels of New York's recent legalization of same-sex marriage comes a report that a growing number of U.S. hospitals are protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients against discrimination. But the same doesn't always hold true for their own employees, reports the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC). Nearly 90 percent of healthcare respondents to an HRC survey say their organization includes sexual orientation in its Patient's Bill of Rights and/or non-discrimination policy, and almost 60 percent include gender identity in those policies, according to HRC's latest Healthcare Equality Index. Fifty-two percent grant same-sex couples equal visitation access as different-sex couples and next of kin. And 48 percent of healthcare facilities grant same-sex parents equal visitation access as different-sex parents for their children. Click here to read more.
 
 



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