Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Act
The Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Act requires hospitals to provide specific information to patients who require inpatient care or outpatient surgery. All staff members, people in training and doctors on the medical staff will be wearing a badge stating their name, department, job or job title. We do this to help you recognize who is involved in your personal care, treatment decisions or surgical procedures.
Our clinical staff includes credentialed physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nursing aides, medical technicians and therapists.
Clinical trainees include resident physicians, medical students, nursing students and other health care professionals training in a hospital.
A credentialed caregiver is a nurse practitioner or physician assistant who is licensed to care for patients within his or her scope of practice.
A credentialed physician is a licensed physician who has completed his or her postgraduate medical training and has medical staff privileges at the hospital.
An attending physician is a licensed physician who is primarily responsible for a patient’s care.
A designee is a credentialed physician or caregiver who has been designated to care for a patient in the absence of the attending physician.
Medical students are individuals enrolled in a program culminating in a degree in medicine.
A resident physician is an individual who is participating in any graduate medical education program.
An intern is an individual who is an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience. These individuals are supervised by fully trained individuals.
A patient is an individual who is being treated by a physician in a hospital and includes the patient’s representative or an individual allowed by law to make decisions for the patient who is a minor or who is unable to consent to health care treatment for himself or herself, or both.
The nursing staff works closely with the physicians and others involved in your care. If at any time you have questions, contact your nurse or clinical staff member. The nurse or clinical staff member can contact a physician, clinical supervisor and/or member of administration for you as requested.
Independent Contractors
Beaufort Memorial Hospital contracts with several physician groups. These independent contractors are the Emergency Department physicians, anesthesiologists, radiologists, pathologists and hospitalists.