Patients’ Right to Take Home Hospital Prescribed Medication

Year: 2008

Resolution Number: 88

Action Taken: Approved as Amended

Status:

Author(s): Krishna K. Sawhney, MD

Sponsor: Krishna K. Sawhney, MD

On behalf of: Wayne County Delegation

Committee: C (Internal Affairs and Public Service) [Pre-2014]

Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with the Michigan Pharmacists Association and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association to encourage development of a policy that allows patients to take their unused medications with them upon discharge from the hospital, thereby reducing costs and hospital waste.

Fiscal Note: NULL

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