Continued supervision of care
Arkansas Code § 20-10-203; Arkansas Code § 20-10-216; Arkansas Code § 20-10-224
- (a) The health care of every patient shall be under the continuing supervision of a physician, who, based on a medical evaluation of the patient's immediate and long-term needs, prescribes a planned regimen of total patient care.
- (b) Patients in need of skilled care should be seen by a physician at least every sixty (60) days, and all others seen at least every one hundred twenty (120) days.
- (c) A notation should be made at each visit and orders for treatment and medication renewed.