MAPA Healthcare Professionals Argue Serious Need

MAPA Healthcare Professionals Argue Serious Need
Improve Healthcare by Updating Law

Written by Tanya Terry

Healthcare professionals from around the state are arguing there are serious need to improve healthcare by updating a law they consider outdated.

In the Trauma or Critical Care Department of a local hospital, patients would come in with acute psychosis and clearly meet in-patient criteria, but they would be able to leave and harm themselves or others because a physician was not able to do certification paperwork. That’s according to a local PA who worked in the hospital for 15 years.

Taneisha Franklin has been a practicing PA (physician assistant) for the past 18 years and now teaches with the PA program at the University of Michigan-Flint. Read the full article in The Flint Courier