La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § I-5263

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section I-5263 - General Provisions

A. A PDHC facility shall employ a sufficient number of qualified staff and delegate sufficient authority to such staff to ensure that the facility's responsibilities are carried out and that the following functions are adequately performed:

1. administrative functions;

2. fiscal functions;

3. clerical functions;

4. housekeeping, maintenance and food service functions;

5. direct service functions;

6. supervisory functions;

7. record-keeping and reporting functions;

8. social services functions; and

9. ancillary service functions.

B. The facility shall ensure that all staff members are properly certified and/or licensed as legally required.

C. The facility shall establish procedures to assure adequate communication among staff in order to provide continuity of services to the participant. This system of communication shall include:

1. a regular review of individual and aggregate problems of participants, including actions taken to resolve these problems;

2. sharing daily information, noting unusual circumstances and other information requiring continued action by staff; and

3. the maintenance of all accidents, personal injuries and pertinent incidents records related to implementation of the child's plan of care.

D. The facility shall not provide service to more participants than the number specified on its license on any given day or at any given time.

E. The facility shall make available to the department any information, which the facility is required to have under these licensing provisions and is reasonably related to the assessment of compliance with these provisions. The participant's rights shall not be considered abridged by this requirement.

F. The PDHC facility shall request a criminal history check on non-licensed persons prior to employment, upon rehire at the PDHC facility, and at least once every three years.

1. A PDHC facility may make an offer of temporary employment to a non-licensed person pending receipt of the results of the criminal history check provided that the check has been requested of the appropriate agency. Any non-licensed individual offered temporary employment prior to the receipt of the results of the criminal history check shall be under the direct supervision of a permanent employee or shall be in the presence of an adult member of the immediate family of the patient.

G. The PDHC facility shall not hire any non-licensed individual who has been convicted of a crime listed in R.S. 40:1300.53(A)(1).

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § I-5263

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 35:2772 (December 2009).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:2193-40:2193.4.