Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Each pediatric respite care program
is obligated
to have an interdisciplinary team or teams that provides or supervises
the provision of pediatric respite care and services. The governing body of the
pediatric respite care program is obligated to designate a registered nurse that is a
member of an interdisciplinary team to coordinate the overall functioning of
that interdisciplinary team to ensure all of the following:
(1) There is ongoing assessment of the
pediatric respite patient's and family's needs;
(2) That all components of the plan of care
are addressed by the interdisciplinary team; and
(3) The plan of care is implemented in
accordance with its terms.
(B) The interdisciplinary team or teams
will
perform the following functions:
(1) Establish
policies and procedures governing the provision of care. If the pediatric
respite care program has more than one interdisciplinary team, it designate
which team is to be responsible for establishing the policies and procedures or
it will
specify particular areas for which each team is to establish policies and
procedures.
(2) Establish an
interdisciplinary plan of care for each pediatric respite care patient and
family;
(a) The interdisciplinary plan of care
should include a statement indicating the expected frequency of admission to
the pediatric respite care program's facility; and
(b) The interdisciplinary plan of care
will be
reviewed and revised if necessary, upon each subsequent admission.
(3) Review the interdisciplinary
plan of care on a periodic basis while the pediatric respite care patient is at
the respite facility, no less frequently than every seven days;
(4) Encourage and foster active involvement
of the patient and family in the development and implementation of the
interdisciplinary plan of care; and
(5) Evaluate the pediatric respite care and
services provided and monitor the continuity of care across all settings for
the pediatric respite care program's patients and their families.
(C) A pediatric respite care
program will ensure that each patient's attending physician,
if any, or the pediatric respite care program medical director, periodically
reviews the patient's plan of care.
