Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 144 - Health Department
Chapter 4658 - NURSING HOMES
MEDICAL AND DENTAL SERVICES
Part 4658.0705 - MEDICAL CARE AND TREATMENT
Universal Citation: MN Rules 4658.0705
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1. Physician supervision.
A nursing home must ensure that each resident has a physician designated to authorize and supervise the medical care and treatment of the resident during the resident's stay in the nursing home, and must ensure that another physician is available to supervise the resident's medical care when the attending physician is unavailable.
Subp. 2. Availability of physicians for emergency and advisory care.
A. A
nursing home must provide or arrange for the provision of physician services 24
hours a day, in case of an emergency, and to act in an advisory
capacity.
B. The name and telephone
number of the emergency physician must be readily available at all
times.
C. A nursing home must
develop and maintain policies and procedures regarding obtaining medical
intervention when the resident's attending physician or the emergency physician
does not respond to a request for medical care or is not available in a timely
manner.
Statutory Authority: MS s 144A.04; 144A.08; 256B.431
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