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Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services)

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What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The provider must protect each patient from mental and physical abuse and, if the right is violated, notify the Department within five business days. (0720-27-.12(1)(d))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 2The provider must ensure each patient receives appropriate assessment and management of pain. (0720-27-.12(1)(b))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 3The provider must ensure each patient's right to privacy in treatment and personal care. (0720-27-.12(1)(a))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 4The provider must allow each patient to be involved in the decision making of all aspects of their care. (0720-27-.12(1)(c))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 5The provider must honor a patient's right to refuse treatment, explain the consequences of refusal, and document the refusal in the medical record. (0720-27-.12(1)(e))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 6The provider must honor each patient's right to self-determination regarding life-sustaining treatment, effectuated through an advance directive. (0720-27-.12(2))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 7The provider must honor a patient's right to refuse experimental treatment and drugs and obtain written consent before enrolling a patient in research. (0720-27-.12(1)(f))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))
  • 8The provider must keep patient records confidential and private and obtain written consent before releasing patient information. (0720-27-.12(1)(g))(Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0720-27-.12 - Patient Rights (Home Care Organizations Providing Home Health Services))

Applies to: home care / home health (includes personal care services delivered in the home)

Tennessee's home care organization (home health) licensure rule enumerates the rights each patient must be afforded, covering privacy, pain management, involvement in care decisions, freedom from abuse (with mandatory reporting), the right to refuse treatment/experimental treatment, confidentiality of records, and self-determination through advance directives. Personal care services delivered by home health/home care organizations fall within this chapter's scope.

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