§ 151:9-a — Rules for Home Health Care Providers and Individual Home Care Service Providers

The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A, relative to the licensing of home health care providers that are separate from rules relative to other health facilities. Such rules shall be subject to the requirements of RSA 151:9, II-V and RSA 151:9, IX and shall include the following:
I. General requirements for licensure which shall include provisions for financial feasibility and suitability of the owner and governing body.
II. Qualifications of staff.
III. Treatment and services and the coordination of treatment and services.
IV. Supervision of direct service staff.
V. Organizational structure, including lines of authority.
VI. Client records.
VII. Business records.
VIII. Other aspects of home health care services which may be necessary to protect the public.
IX. A schedule of administrative fines which may be imposed under RSA 151:16-a for violation of this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to it.
X. Procedures for notice and hearing prior to the imposition of an administrative fine imposed under RSA 151:16-a.
XI. Standards for services offered by home health care providers including homemaker and personal care services.
XII. Requirements for mandatory registration of individual home care service providers which shall not exceed a criminal background check and a state registry check.

Legislative History

1985, 302:4. 1991, 355:41. 1995, 310:30, 182. 2004, 5:3, eff. May 18, 2004. 2012, 41:5, 6, eff. July 1, 2012.