CBA Florida Inc. (fka CBAI)

[dianebRN]

OK. I assume meeting state regulatory requirements is somewhere in the formula but not worried about this at this point. As you said, the hospital enters an agreement with the company but that doesn't totally relieve it of it's responsibility to safeguard the patient from harm. If that were the case, only doctors would be sued for malpractice but 99.9% of the time hospitals are named as well. Hospitals who engage or employ physicians (and nurses) carry responsibility as well. Idea is that they should do a better job of screening people who work with their patients as well as the agreements they enter to manage patients. The deeper pocket factor is involved of course but you get the picture. I'm not saying the barriers are insurmountable just in need of being addressed more specifically.