NAMInet The NAMInet is a tremendous resource exclusively for our grassroots leadership. The Court refused to issue an injunction stopping the rule, as litigated by the hospitals. The Rule was promulgated to protect patients against the unnecessary and excessive use of restraints or seclusion.
Plaintiffs offer no concrete, reliable evidence to support their contentions of irreparable harm.
The act requires that federal rules not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses. The Court ordered HCFA to conduct a FRFA analysis. Hospitals will now be providing HCFA with supposed data arguing that having a licensed independent mental health practitioner on site for emergency safety situations will have harsh economic impact. NAMI wants to see which hospitals will publicly declare that it is an economic burden to have a licensed independent mental health practitioner on site to respond to limited emergency safety situations. Hospital lobbyists argue that it is a burden to have psychiatrists on site to respond to emergency safety situations.