Rule 111-8-37-.05 - Inspections and Investigations(1) The hospice staff, any facilities where hospice care is being delivered, and the hospice patients must be accessible during all hours of operation to properly identified representatives of the Department for inspections and investigations relating to the hospice's license.(2) The Department will periodically inspect each hospice to ensure that the licensee is providing quality care to its patients; provided, however, that a hospice is exempt from routine periodicon-site licensure inspection if it is certified as a hospice in accordance with federal regulations. Where the Department receives or becomes aware of a complaint alleging that the hospice is not acting in compliance with the requirements of these rules, the Department may conduct an inspection at any time to determine whether the licensed hospice is in compliance with these rules.(3) For the purposes of any inspection, investigation, or survey conducted by the Department, the hospice must provide to properly identified representatives of the Department meaningful access to all books, records, papers, or other information related to the initial or continued licensing of the hospice.(4) The hospice must submit to the Department, in a format acceptable to the Department, a written plan of correction in response to any inspection report of violations identified by the Department. The plan of correction must specify what the hospice will do by a date certain to correct each of the violations identified. The plan of correction must be submitted within 10 days of the hospice's receipt of the inspection report of violations. A plan of correction must be determined to be acceptable by the Department. Hospices may be allowed an additional 48 hours to revise any plan of correction deemed unacceptable by the Department. Failure to submit an acceptable plan of correction may result in the Department commencing enforcement procedures. The hospice must correct all violations cited.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 111-8-37-.05
O.C.G.A. §§ 31-7-170et seq.
Original Rule entitled "Inspections and Investigations" adopted. F. May 26, 2015; eff. June 15, 2015.