WASHINGTON – American hospitals and clinics are increasingly committed to equality for their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients, according to a report published July 11 by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, at a press conference at the Department of Veterans Affairs…
TAKOMA PARK, Md. – Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md. has come under fire for its policies and practices related to hospital visitation. Nov. 13, 2011, Kathryn Wilderotter was admitted to the hospital following a car accident. When Linda Cole, her legal spouse and partner of 11 years, arrived, she was reportedly not recognized…
A New Jersey gay couple has won full custody of their 5-year-old twin daughters after a court battle with the children’s surrogate mother. But the case wasn’t entirely cut and dry – the surrogate mother, Angelia Robinson, was also sister to Donald Hollingsworth, husband to Sean Hollingsworth, a gay couple married in California who now…
Although visitation rights are determined by patients, a Tennessee woman was prevented from seeing her partner after a hospital turned her away since she want not a legal spouse or family member. Val Burke, a Tennessee woman, is asking officials at Rolling Hills Hospital why she was excluded from her partner’s room, but so far,…
