{"ref":"GA-HSP-GOV-06","title":"Hospice Program, Description of Services and Policy Index","category":"Governance","summary":"Defines the Agency’s hospice program: the services it provides and how they are available around the clock, where care is given, the Georgia requirement that most care days are delivered at home, the written description of services given to patients and families, and an index mapping each Georgia and federal written-policy requirement to the policy in this manual.","inShort":["We provide medical, nursing, social, spiritual, volunteer and bereavement services, plus aides, therapies, medicines, supplies and inpatient care.","A nurse and a hospice physician can be reached 24 hours a day on (404) 555-0199.","Most of our care must be given in patients’ homes, including assisted living and nursing homes where they live.","Give every new patient or family the Description of Hospice Services.","No terminally ill patient is turned away or discharged because they cannot pay."],"primaryCitation":"Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(5)(b), (d)","citations":["Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.03(k)-(n), (s)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(5)(b)-(e), (i)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.08(3)(a)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.10(1)(o)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.16(1), (5)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.17(4)(a)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.18(1)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.19","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.21(2)(b)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.22"],"federalCitations":["42 CFR §418.100(a), (c)","42 CFR §418.64","42 CFR §418.70"],"surveyorAsks":["What services do you provide, and which are provided by your own employees?","Show me the description of services you give patients and families. Does it say whether you provide palliative care to patients who are not terminally ill?"],"forms":[{"ref":"GA-HSP-GOV-06-A","title":"Description of Hospice Services"}],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(5)(b), (d); 42 CFR §418.100(c))","5. Services and How They Are Provided","6. Where Care Is Given","7. Description of Services for Patients and Families","8. Policy Index","9. Responsibilities","10. Records and Compliance Monitoring","11. References","12. Related Policies and Forms","13. Approval","14. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"ga-hospice","state":"Georgia","service":"Hospice","guides":[{"path":"/guides/hospice-policies/","h1":"What policies are required for hospice?"},{"path":"/guides/hospice-conditions-of-participation/","h1":"Hospice Conditions of Participation: which policies each one needs"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}