The licensee must meet all requirements shown at 175 NAC
1-005.03 through 1-005.07 and this chapter.
005.01
NOTIFICATIONS. The licensee must:
(A) Meet notification requirements at 175 NAC
1-005.01 (A), (D), (E), (G)(i), (G)(iii);
(B) Notify the Department in writing at least
30 working days before the home health agency would like to add a service or
branch office; and
(C) Notify the
Department in writing within 24 hours of a consumer's death which occurred
while staff were present, or scheduled to be present, in the consumer's home to
provide care, treatment, or services and the consumer's death was due to:
(i) Suicide;
(ii) A violent act;
(iii) Drowning; or
(iv) During or immediately after a restraint
or seclusion was utilized.
005.02
EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM OF
LICENSE. The home health agency license expires on January 31 of
each year.
005.03
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP OR PREMISES. Change of ownership
terminates the license. Change of premises does not terminate the license of a
home health agency.
005.04
BRANCH OFFICES. The parent home health agency is
responsible for all care, treatment, and services provided at the parent and
branch locations. All deficient practices cited at any home health agency
branch or parent location apply to all locations under that licensee's home
health agency license. A branch office is not required to independently meet
licensure requirements but must meet supervision requirements for branch
offices as shown below. Branch offices must:
(A) Be approved by the Department before
becoming operational;
(B) Provide
the same full range of care, treatment, and services provided by the parent
home health agency issued the license within a portion of the total approved
geographic area served by the parent home health agency;
(C) Be part of the parent home health agency
and share administration, supervision, and services with the parent home health
agency on a daily basis;
(D) Be
located sufficiently close to the parent home health agency to share
administration, supervision, and services with the parent home health agency on
a daily basis;
(E) Have onsite
supervisory visits by the home health agency administrator or the
administrator's designated person of the parent home health agency at least
once a month with documentation of these supervisory visits being maintained at
the parent home health agency location;
(F) Maintain copies of all agency policies,
procedures and forms at the branch location;
(G) Maintain complete clinical records for
all branch consumer's care, treatment and services; and
(H) Maintain in the parent home health agency
for all consumers receiving services from branch offices the following:
(i) Consumer identifying
information;
(ii) Name, address,
and telephone number of consumer's practitioner;
(iii) Consumer diagnosis;
(iv) The services being provided to the
consumer; and
(v) The above
information must be maintained until the complete clinical record is either
stored at the parent home health agency or can be destroyed.
005.05
SIGNAGE. The licensee must place a sign, on the
agency's entrance door, which contains the agency's name and physical address
as they appear on the home health agency license issued by the
Department.
