La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § I-9405

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section I-9405 - Discharge Planning

A. The hospital shall have an on-going plan, consistent with available community and hospital resources, to provide or make available social work, psychological and educational services to meet the medically related needs of its patients.

1. If a patient has designated an uncompensated caregiver for aftercare, a hospital shall make a good faith attempt to notify the patient's designated caregiver of the patient's discharge to the patient's residence as soon as possible prior to the patient's discharge. If the hospital is unable to contact the designated caregiver, the lack of contact may not interfere with, delay or otherwise affect the medical care provided to the patient, or an appropriate discharge of the patient.

a. For purposes of §9405. B 1-3, a residence does not include any rehabilitation facility, hospital, nursing home, assisted living facility or group home.

2. As soon as practicable prior to the patient's discharge, the hospital shall make a reasonable effort to consult with the designated caregiver along with the patient, taking into account the capabilities and limitations of the caregiver, to accomplish the aftercare tasks that may be included in a discharge care plan that describes the patient's aftercare needs at his residence.

3. The hospital shall educate and instruct the caregiver concerning the aftercare needs of the patient in a manner that is consistent with the discharge plan and is based on the learning needs of the caregiver. In addition, the hospital shall also provide an opportunity for the caregiver and patient to ask questions and receive explanations about the aftercare tasks.

C. Services to persons who are elderly and persons with disabilities. Any licensed hospital, which is owned or operated, or both, by a hospital service district, or which benefits from being financed by the sale of bonds from the state or guaranteed by the state that are exempt from taxation as provided by Louisiana law, or which receives any other type of financial assistance from the state, is directed to give, when possible, priority to the treatment of persons who are elderly and persons with physical or mental disabilities in the delivery of nonemergency healthcare services.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § I-9405

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of the Secretary, Bureau of Health Services Financing LR 21:177 (February 1995), amended LR 29:2417 (November 2003), Amended by the Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 4374 (1/1/2017), Amended by the Department of Health, Health Standards Section, LR 501487 (10/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S.36:254 and R.S. 40:2100-2115.