175 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 14, § 005

Current through June 2, 2024

Section 175-14-005 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The licensee must meet all requirements shown at 175 NAC 1-005.03 through 1-005.07 and this chapter.

005.01NOTIFICATIONS. The licensee must:

(A) Meet notification requirements at 175 NAC 1-005.01 (A), (D), (E), (G)(i), (G)(iii);

(B) Notify the Department in writing at least 30 working days before the home health agency would like to add a service or branch office; and

(C) Notify the Department in writing within 24 hours of a consumer's death which occurred while staff were present, or scheduled to be present, in the consumer's home to provide care, treatment, or services and the consumer's death was due to:

(i) Suicide;

(ii) A violent act;

(iii) Drowning; or

(iv) During or immediately after a restraint or seclusion was utilized.

005.02EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM OF LICENSE. The home health agency license expires on January 31 of each year.

005.03CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP OR PREMISES. Change of ownership terminates the license. Change of premises does not terminate the license of a home health agency.

005.04BRANCH OFFICES. The parent home health agency is responsible for all care, treatment, and services provided at the parent and branch locations. All deficient practices cited at any home health agency branch or parent location apply to all locations under that licensee's home health agency license. A branch office is not required to independently meet licensure requirements but must meet supervision requirements for branch offices as shown below. Branch offices must:

(A) Be approved by the Department before becoming operational;

(B) Provide the same full range of care, treatment, and services provided by the parent home health agency issued the license within a portion of the total approved geographic area served by the parent home health agency;

(C) Be part of the parent home health agency and share administration, supervision, and services with the parent home health agency on a daily basis;

(D) Be located sufficiently close to the parent home health agency to share administration, supervision, and services with the parent home health agency on a daily basis;

(E) Have onsite supervisory visits by the home health agency administrator or the administrator's designated person of the parent home health agency at least once a month with documentation of these supervisory visits being maintained at the parent home health agency location;

(F) Maintain copies of all agency policies, procedures and forms at the branch location;

(G) Maintain complete clinical records for all branch consumer's care, treatment and services; and

(H) Maintain in the parent home health agency for all consumers receiving services from branch offices the following:

(i) Consumer identifying information;

(ii) Name, address, and telephone number of consumer's practitioner;

(iii) Consumer diagnosis;

(iv) The services being provided to the consumer; and

(v) The above information must be maintained until the complete clinical record is either stored at the parent home health agency or can be destroyed.

005.05SIGNAGE. The licensee must place a sign, on the agency's entrance door, which contains the agency's name and physical address as they appear on the home health agency license issued by the Department.

175 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 14, § 005

Amended effective 5/5/2024