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175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003 - Home Health Agencies: Licensing Requirements

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What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The agency must ensure that any services provided through contract with an outside entity comply with a written agreement. (175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003)(175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003)
  • 2The agency must submit a complete application and meet all requirements set out in statute, in 175 NAC 1-003, and in Chapter 14 to receive a license. (175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003)(175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003)
  • 3The agency must accept a consumer for admission only when the agency can meet the consumer's needs for care, treatment, and services. (175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003.03(B))(175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003 - Home Health Agencies: Licensing Requirements)
  • 4The agency must be responsible for coordination of all consumer services when it provides more than one service to a single consumer. (175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003.03(C))(175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003 - Home Health Agencies: Licensing Requirements)
  • 5The agency must assure a supervising registered nurse is available or on call to staff during all hours that skilled nursing care, home health aide services, or any combination of these services are provided. (175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003.03(E))(175 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 14, § 003 - Home Health Agencies: Licensing Requirements)

Applies to: Home health agencies providing skilled nursing, home health aide, and therapeutic in-home services (home care scope)

Nebraska requires home health agencies to be licensed under Title 175, Chapter 14. To obtain and hold a license, an agency must submit a complete application, pay applicable fees, and meet enumerated service, staffing, consumer-acceptance, service-coordination, and nursing-supervision requirements, in addition to the general facility requirements in 175 NAC 1 and the Health Care Facility Licensure Act.

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