For 21 months, I was a Hospice Chaplain on Cape Cod and was worngfully terminated. I applied for MA Unenmployment Benefits right away and. The process took 2 months & after reviewing my cause fot termination, the DUA Adjudicator ruled in my facor for the right to my benefits. Exibit:: transporting an elderly hospice pt''s partner in m car. She was at lethal BP stroke levels, escalating headaches, had run our ot meds, had no car & would not allow us to call 9// to take her to the ER as she refused to leave her immanently dying partner''s bedside for an indefinitely. I spoke with the in- house MD who offered no other ideas. I suggested she call her PC Dr. & ask to be seen/treated right away. He agreed & I gave her a r/t ride in my car. She was stabalized & Pt''s partner was so grateful in avoiding a stroke, or worse. In the company policy handbook, I did not recall that no staff can transport a pt-partner-even in this emergency. I was operating from a Chaplain Code of Ethics-which fired me
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