Section DHS 94.15 - Labor performed by patients(1) Any labor performed by a patient which is of financial benefit to the treatment facility shall be conducted within the requirements under s. 51.61(1) (b), Stats., and this section.(2) Patients may only be required to perform tasks that are equivalent to personal housekeeping chores performed in common or private living areas of an ordinary home. Personal housekeeping tasks may include light cleaning of shared living quarters if all patients sharing those quarters participate as equally as possible in the cleaning chores.(3) Payment for therapeutic labor authorized under s. 51.61(1) (b), Stats., shall be made in accordance with wage guidelines established under state and federal law.(4) Documentation shall be made in the treatment record of any compensated, uncompensated, voluntary or involuntary labor performed by any patient.(5) The document used to obtain informed consent for application of a patient's wages toward the cost of treatment shall conspicuously state that the patient has the right to refuse consent without suffering any adverse consequences.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 94.15
Cr. Register, January, 1987, No. 373, eff. 2-1-87; am. (2), (3), Register, June, 1996, No. 486, eff. 7-1-96.