Start of Care, Admission Visit, and the 48-Hour Assessment

Sets how the Agency starts care once a referral is accepted: confirming orders, scheduling within the Agency's start-of-care time frame, who makes the admission visit (a direct employee or contractor, a registered nurse when nursing is ordered), the Florida assessment of the patient's needs within 48 hours after the start of services, and, if the Agency is Medicare-certified, the initial assessment visit within 48 hours of referral or return home or on the ordered start of care date. It lists what happens at the admission visit and what the clinical record must hold at the start of care, including the special needs registry information required on admission.