As gay politics become policy, New York hospitals move to reform treatment

Outside events like the state’s legalization of same-sex marriage and new rules about fair visitation rights ordered by the White House and implemented by the Joint Commission, which accredits U.S. hospitals, have New York institutions struggling to keep pace even as a raft of studies demonstrates the inadequacy of treatment in hospitals of gay, lesbian and transgender patients. More

By Eliza Shapiro

August 8, 2011 9:19 am