South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 44 - Department of Health
Article 44:79 - Inpatient hospice facilities
Chapter 44:79:01 - Rules of general applicability
Section 44:79:01:05 - Restrictions on acceptance of patients

(1) The hospice facility shall be certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a Medicare certified hospice providing inpatient hospice services;

(2) A patient accepted for care by a hospice shall be housed within the facility covered by the license;

(3) A hospice may not accept or retain a patient who requires care in excess of the classification for which it is licensed;

(4) Personnel essential to maintaining adequate staff may not leave a hospice during the persons tour of duty in the hospice to provide services to a person who is not patient of the hospice with the exception of providing emergency care on premises contiguous to the hospice's property; and

(5) A hospice facility may only admit and retain a patient certified by a physician as terminally ill.