R432-750-2. Purpose

(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.