Question: A grandmother is coming to the pediatric hospital to visit her grandson who is a patient. The grandmother trips and falls over a curb in the hospital parking lot and has immediate, intense hip pain. Choose the correct answer: Need Assignment Help?
Group of answer choices
- There is no EMTALA obligation, but hospital employees should assist the grandmother to the hospital ED for care because she fell on hospital property and the hospital is at risk for a premises liability claim.
- There is an EMTALA obligation, so hospital employees should call 911 to provide emergency treatment and have EMS transfer the grandmother to an adult hospital ED for proper care.
- There is no EMTALA obligation, but hospital employees should call 911 to provide emergency treatment and have EMS transfer the grandmother to an adult hospital ED for proper care.
- There is an EMTALA obligation, so hospital employees should assist the grandmother to the hospital ED for care because she fell on hospital property that is within 250 yards of the main hospital.