The nursing home administrator or the administrator's designee
shall:
(A) Immediately inform the
resident, consult with
resident's
physician or other licensed health
professional acting within the applicable scope of practice, or the medical
director, if the
attending
resident's physician or other licensed health
professional acting within the applicable scope of practice is not available,
and notify the
resident's
sponsor or authorized representative, with the
resident's permission, and other proper authority, in accordance with state and
local laws and regulations when there is:
(1)
An accident involving the resident which results in injury and has the
potential for requiring physician intervention;
(2) A significant change in the resident's
physical, mental, or psycho-social status such as a deterioration in health,
mental, or psycho-social status in either life-threatening conditions or
clinical complications;
(3) A need
to alter treatment significantly such as a need to discontinue an existing form
of treatment due to adverse consequences, or to commence a new form of
treatment.
The notification shall include a description of the
circumstances and cause, if known, of the illness, injury or death. A notation
of the change in health status and any intervention taken shall be documented
in the medical record. If the resident is a patient of a hospice care program,
the notifications required by this paragraph shall be the responsibility of the
hospice care program unless otherwise indicated in the coordinated plan of care
required under paragraph (H) of rule
3701-17-14 of the Administrative
Code.
(B) Report
the death of a resident within twenty-four hours to the appropriate third-party
payer; or, if the office is closed, as soon thereafter as it is open.
(C) Report any incident of fire, damage due
to fire and any incidence of illness, injury or death due to fire or smoke
inhalation of a resident within twenty-four hours to the office of the state
fire marshal and to the director.
(D) Report the diseases required to be
reported under Chapter 3701-3 of the Administrative Code in the manner
specified by that chapter.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
3701-17-12
Effective:
1/1/2018
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
8/8/2017 and
11/01/2022
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory
Authority: 3721.04
Rule
Amplifies: 3721.04
Prior
Effective Dates: 5/2/66, 3/1/1971, 12/21/92, 10/20/01,
4/1/2012