Palliative Care for Persons With Advanced and Progressive Disease
Applies only if the Agency offers palliative care to persons with advanced and progressive disease, a Georgia hospice service that is not the Medicare hospice benefit. It sets the Georgia admission criteria, the change-of-scope application to the Department before the service starts, how care is planned and reviewed, how patients move to hospice care if they become terminally ill, and the rights that apply.
About this policy
- Policy number
- GA-HSP-ADM-02
- Version
- 1.0
- Main rule
- Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.14(5)
- Library
- Georgia hospice · 60 policies
- Category
- Hospice care
- Sections
- 17
In short
- This applies only if we offer palliative care for advanced and progressive disease.
- Admit only with a physician order for the disease, the person’s request for our team’s help, and needs we can meet.
- It is not Medicare hospice: no election statement and no certification.
- Review the plan of care when the condition changes, when the patient asks for more help, and at least every 60 days.
- If the patient becomes terminally ill, explain hospice care and admit to hospice if they choose it.
What's inside
17 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.
- Terms of Reference
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Policy Statement (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.14(5))
- 5. Starting the Service
- 6. Admission
- 7. Care Planning and Services
- 8. Change to Terminal Illness
- 9. Ending the Service
- 10. Responsibilities
- 11. Records and Compliance Monitoring
- 12. Staff Training
- 13. References
- 14. Related Policies and Forms
- 15. Approval
- 16. Revision History
An inspector may ask
- Do you offer palliative care for persons with advanced and progressive disease? Where does your description of services say so?
- Show me the physician order indicating the advanced and progressive disease and the person’s request for hospice care team intervention.
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