Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R432 - Health Care Facility Licensing
Rule R432-750 - Hospice Rule
Section R432-750-2 - Purpose
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 432-750-2
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) A hospice licensee provides support and care for persons with a limited life expectancy so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
(2) A hospice licensee offers services that:
(a) recognize dying as a normal process
resulting from disease or injury;
(b) neither hastens nor postpones
death;
(c) prepares patients and
families to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that
is satisfactory to them, through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring
community sensitive to their needs;
(d) provide physical, psychosocial,
spiritual, and bereavement care for dying persons and their families;
(e) are offered through an interdisciplinary
team of professionals and volunteers; and
(f) are available in both the home and an
inpatient setting.
(3) This rule applies to a program advertising or presenting to be a hospice or hospice program of care, as defined in Section 26-21-2, that provides, directly or by contract, hospice services to the terminally ill.
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