EMTALA at 40: What Risk and Legal Leaders Need to Know

Now marking 40 years since its enactment, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) remains a closely watched compliance area for healthcare organizations, and enforcement continues to evolve. Understanding your obligations across care settings is essential to protecting patients and reducing regulatory risk. During this session, our speakers will explain EMTALA’s core requirements, share recent developments and provide practical strategies to strengthen compliance within your organization.

Key topics include:

• EMTALA’s statutory purpose, core requirements and regulatory framework
• EMTALA obligations across diverse care settings within covered institutions
• Recent EMTALA developments, enforcement trends and areas of regulatory focus
• Proven risk management strategies to strengthen EMTALA compliance within your organization

Approved for 1.0 contact hour of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal.