Hospice Inpatient Unit Operations

Applies only if the Agency provides inpatient care directly in its own facility. Sets out the federal standards for staffing, 24-hour nursing (with an RN providing direct care on each shift when a patient is receiving general inpatient care), the physical environment, fire and building safety, patient areas and rooms, infection control, meals, pharmacy services, controlled drugs, restraint and seclusion, and reporting deaths associated with restraint or seclusion to CMS by the close of business the next business day.