Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 0720 - Health Facilities Commission
Chapter 0720-29 - Standards for HIV Supportive Living Centers
Section 0720-29-.04 - ADMINISTRATION

(1) The HIV supportive living facility shall have a full-time (working at least 32 hours per week) administrator. Any change of administrators shall be reported in writing to the department within fifteen (15) days. The administrator shall designate in writing an individual to act in his/her absence in order to provide the HIV supportive living facility with administrative direction at all times. The administrator shall assure the provision of appropriate fiscal resources and personnel required to meet the needs of the residents.

(2) The HIV supportive living facility must organize, manage, and administer its HIV care services to attain and maintain the highest obtainable quality of life for each resident in a manner consistent with acceptable standards of practice.

(3) The HIV supportive living facility shall ensure a framework for addressing issues related to care at the end of life.

(4) The HIV supportive living facility shall provide a process that assesses pain in all patients. There shall be an appropriate and effective pain management program.

(5) Nursing services, physician services, drugs and biologicals shall routinely be available on a 24-hour basis.

(6) All other HIV services shall be available on a 24-hour basis to the extent necessary to meet the needs of individuals for care that is reasonable and necessary for the palliation and management of terminal illness or conditions directly attributable to the HIV diagnosis.

(7) An HIV supportive living facility may contract for another individual or entity to furnish services, other than core services, to the HIV supportive living facility's residents. If services are provided under agreement or contract, the HIV supportive living facility must meet the following standards:

(8) The facility shall make reasonable efforts to safeguard personal property and promptly investigate complaints of such loss. A record shall be prepared of all clothing, personal possessions, and money brought by the resident to the HIV supportive living facility. One copy of the record shall be given to the resident or the resident's representative and the original shall be maintained in the HIV supportive living facility record. This record shall be updated as additional personal property is brought to the facility.

(9) If the facility keeps resident funds, such funds shall be kept in an account separate from the facility's funds. Resident funds shall not be used by the facility. The facility shall maintain and allow each resident access to a written record of all financial arrangements and transactions involving the individual resident's funds. The facility shall provide each resident or his/her representative with a written itemized statement at least quarterly of all financial transactions involving the resident's funds.

(10) Within thirty (30) days of a resident's death, the facility shall provide an accounting of the resident's funds held by the facility and an inventory of the resident's personal property held by the facility to the resident's executor, administrator or other person authorized by law to receive the decedent's property. The facility shall obtain a signed receipt from any person to whom the decedent's property is transferred.

(11) Upon the sale of the facility, the seller shall provide written verification that all the resident's funds and property have been transferred and shall obtain a signed receipt from the new owner. Upon receipt, the buyer shall provide, to the residents, an accounting of funds and property held on their behalf.

(12) When licensure is applicable for a particular job, verification of the current license must be included as a part of the personnel file. Each personnel file shall contain accurate information as to the education, training, experience and personnel background of the employee or volunteer. Documentation that references were verified shall be on file. Adequate medical screenings to exclude communicable disease shall be required of each employee.

(13) Whenever the rules and regulations of this chapter require that a licensee develop a written policy, plan, procedure, technique, or system concerning a subject, the licensee shall develop the required policy, maintain it and adhere to its provisions. A HIV supportive living facility which violates a required policy also violates the rule and regulation establishing the requirement.

(14) Policies and procedures shall be consistent with professionally recognized standards of practice.

(15) No HIV supportive living facility shall retaliate against or, in any manner, discriminate against any person because of a complaint made in good faith and without malice to the board, the department, the Department of Human Services Adult Protective Services, the long term care ombudsman, the Comptroller of the State Treasury, or any government agency. A HIV supportive living facility shall neither retaliate, nor discriminate, because of information lawfully provided to these authorities, because of a person's cooperation with them, or because a person is subpoenaed to testify at a hearing involving one of these authorities.

(16) Each HIV supportive living facility shall adopt safety policies for the protection of residents from accident and injury.

(17) A record pertaining to the payment agreement between the HIV supportive living facility and the resident shall be accomplished prior to admission. A copy of the agreement record shall be given to the resident and the original shall be maintained in the facility's records.

(18) All health care facilities licensed pursuant to T.C.A. §§ 68-11-201, et seq. shall post the following in the main public entrance:

(19) "No smoking" signs or the international "No Smoking" symbol, consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it, shall be clearly and conspicuously posted at every entrance.

(20) The facility shall develop a concise statement of its charity care policies and shall post such statement in a place accessible to the public.