1. A. The hospice care program shall ensure that emergency services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.

2. B. Emergency services are to include, at a minimum:

   1. (1) Registered nurse and physician services;
   2. (2) Palliative medications; and
   3. (3) Other services, equipment, and supplies necessary to meet the patient's immediate needs as directed by the patient's plan of care.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§19-903 and 19-907, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: October 2, 1989 (16:19 Md. R. 2104)

Regulations .01—.16 repealed and new Regulations .01—.28 adopted effective August 10, 1998 (25:16 Md. R. 1274)

Regulation .04B amended effective August 29, 2016 (43:17 Md. R. 953); March 13, 2017 (44:5 Md. R. 292)