Disciplinary Procedures

(1) The board may suspend or revoke a license for: (a) Violation of federal statutes or rules and regulations; (b) Violation of state statutes or the rules as set forth in this chapter; (c) Permitting, aiding or abetting the commission of any illegal act in the renal dialysis clinic; (d) Conduct or practice found by the board to be detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the patients of the renal dialysis clinic; and (e) Failure to renew the license. (2) The board may consider all factors which it deems relevant, including but not limited to the following, when determining sanctions: (a) The degree of sanctions necessary to ensure immediate and continued compliance; (b) The character and degree of impact of the violation on the health, safety and welfare of the patients in the facility; (c) The conduct of the facility in taking all feasible steps or procedures necessary or appropriate to comply or correct the violation; and (d) Any prior violations by the facility of statutes, rules or orders of the commissioner or the board. (3) When a renal dialysis clinic is found by the department to have committed a violation of this chapter, the department will issue to the facility a statement of deficiencies. Within ten (10) days of the receipt of the statement of deficiencies, the facility must return a plan of correction indicating the following: (a) How the deficiency will be corrected; (b) The date upon which each deficiency will be corrected; (c) What measures or systemic changes will be put in place to ensure that the deficient practice does not recur; and (d) How the corrective action will be monitored to ensure that the deficient practice does not recur. STANDARDS FOR END STAGE RENAL DIALYSIS CLINICS CHAPTER 0720-33 (4) Failure to submit a plan of correction in a timely manner, a finding by the department that the plan of correction is unacceptable or failure to comply with the plan of correction, shall subject the renal dialysis clinic’s license to possible disciplinary action. (5) Any licensee or applicant for a license, aggrieved by a decision or action of the department or board, pursuant to this chapter, may request a hearing before the board. The proceedings and judicial review of the board’s decision shall be in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, T.C.A. §§ 4-5-101, et seq. (6) Reconsideration and Stays. The Board authorizes the member who chaired the Board for a contested case to be the agency member to make the decisions authorized pursuant to Rule 1360-04-01-.18 regarding petitions for reconsiderations and stays in that case.