Utah Admin. Code R432-750-7 - Acceptance and Termination
(1) The licensee
shall develop written acceptance and termination policies and make these
policies available to the public upon request.
(2) The licensee shall make available to the
public, upon request, information regarding the various services provided by
the hospice agency and the cost of the services.
(3) The licensee shall accept a patient for
treatment if there is a reasonable expectation that the patient's needs can be
met by the hospice agency regardless of the ability to pay for the services.
The licensee shall base the acceptance determination on the following:
(a) the patient, family or responsible person
agrees that hospice care is appropriate and completes a signed informed consent
document requesting hospice services, or if no primary care person is
available, the licensee shall complete an evaluation to determine the patient's
eligibility for service;
(b) the
patient's attending physician shall order hospice care; and
(c) the licensee determines that the
patient's place of residence is adaptable and safe for the provision of hospice
services.
(4) The
licensee may end services to a patient if any of the following circumstances
occur:
(a) the family situation changes that
affects the delivery of services;
(b) the licensee can no longer provide
quality care in the existing environment due to the safety of staff, patient,
or family;
(c) the patient is no
longer terminal;
(d) the patient
moves from the geographic area served by the hospice agency;
(e) the patient or family is uncooperative in
efforts to attain treatment objectives;
(f) the patient or family requests that
hospice agency services be discontinued; or
(g) the physician does not renew orders, or
the patient changes their physician, and the licensee cannot obtain orders to
continue services from the new physician.
(5) Upon transfer from a home program to an
inpatient facility, or the reverse, the transferring program staff shall
forward the plan of care to the receiving program.
Notes
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