- (1) A hospice licensee provides support and care for individuals with a limited life expectancy so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
(2) A hospice licensee offers services that:
- (a) are available in both the home and an inpatient setting;
- (b) are offered through an interdisciplinary team of professionals and volunteers;
- (c) neither hastens nor postpones death;
- (d) recognize dying as a normal process resulting from disease or injury;
- (e) prepares a patient and family to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring community sensitive to their needs; and
- (f) provides physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and bereavement care for a dying individual and their family.
- (3) This rule applies to a program advertising or presenting to be a hospice or hospice program of care, as defined in Section 26B-2-201, that provides, directly or by contract, hospice services to the terminally ill.
KEY: health care facilities
Date of Last Change: February 18, 2025
Notice of Continuation: August 13, 2021
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 26B-2-202; 26B-2-204