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Chapter 2 Home-Base Services
Section 1 Home-Base Medical Services
Article 6
Home-base medical services include the followings:
1. Home-base care.
2. Home-base nutrition.
3. Home-base respiratory treatment.
4. Home-base hospice care.
5. Home-base pharmaceutical care.
6. Other home-base medical services.
Article 7
Home-base medical services are provided by the following institutions:
1. Medical service institutions, nursing institutions, and related medical entities.
2. Social welfare institutions and social welfare entities.
Article 8
Home-base medical service providers shall equip with necessary facilities and equipment, and combine with professional medical staffs to provide their services.
Article 9
Home-base medical service provides shall handle the following matters:
1. Setting the working contents and supervision procedures.
2. Making the medical records and case history records.
Section 2 Home-base Rehabilitation Services
Article 10
Home-base rehabilitation services include the followings:
1. Home-base physical therapy:
(1) Affairs under Article 12 and Article 17 of Physical Therapist Act.
(2) Physical therapy with pains, assistive physical therapy with chronic wounds, assessment and consultation of environmental improvement, education and consultation of caregivers and service recipients.
2. Home-base occupational therapy:
(1) Affairs under Article 12 and Article 17 of Occupational Therapist Act.
(2) Facilitation and trainings of functions of daily activities and participation of community life, facilitation and trainings of arrangement abilities of daily activities, assessment, consultation and applicable examination of environmental improvement, education and consultation of caregivers and community public.
Article 11
Home-base rehabilitation services are provided by the following institutions:
1. Rehabilitation related medical institutions, medical care institutions, nursing institutions, and medical entities.
2. Social welfare institutions and social welfare entities.
Article 12
Home-base rehabilitation service providers shall equip with necessary facilities and equipment, and the operation supervisors of the home-base rehabilitation services shall have medical or social worker professional qualifications.
Article 13
Professional personnel of home-base rehabilitation services shall possess physical therapist (assistant) or occupational therapist (assistant) qualifications.
Physical therapists (assistants) or occupational therapists (assistants) shall practice according to the diagnosis, notes, or advices issued by a physician.
Article 14
Home-base rehabilitation service provides shall handle the following matters:
1. Setting the working contents and supervision procedures.
2. Making the medical records and case history records.
Section 3 Body Care and Housekeeping Services
Article 15
Body care and housekeeping services include the followings:
1. Body care services: including assistance to use of toilet, bath, clothes change, oral cleaning, dining, taking medication, turning the body over, padding the back, simple passive motions for limb joints, going to bed and getting off from bed, accompanying with exercises, assistance to use of daily life assistive equipment, and other services.
2. Housekeeping services: including laundry and patching of clothes, cleaning of service recipient’s dwelling, documentation service, meal preparation service, accompanying to purchase or purchasing daily necessities, accompanying to seek medical service or contacting the medical care institution, and other services.
Article 16
Body care and housekeeping services are provided by the followings institutions:
1. Medical care institutions, nursing institutions, and medical treatment legal persons.
2. Welfare institutions for senior citizens and welfare institutions for physically and mentally disabled citizens.
3. Incorporated charitable associations, foundations, social welfare entities, and care service labor cooperatives.
4. Firms of licensed social workers.
Article 17
Body care and housekeeping service providers shall place caregivers and home-base service supervisors, and may place full-time or contract administrative personnel, physicians, nursing personnel, or other staff members according to their operation needs.
Article 18
Body care and housekeeping service providers shall handle the following matters:
1. Signing a service contract with the service recipient before providing service to clearly stipulate the rights and obligations of both parties.
2. Drafting a service plan.
3. Setting the working contents and supervision procedures.
4. Making the medical records and case history records.
Section 4 Visit-Care and Phone-Care Services
Article 19
Visit-care and phone-care services are provided by the following institutions:
1. Medical service institutions and nursing institutions.
2. Social welfare institutions.
3. Incorporated charitable associations, foundations, social entities, and care service labor cooperatives.
4. Legitimately registered religious entities.
5. Firms of licensed social workers.
Article 20
Visit-care and phone-care service providers shall combine with volunteers who have received related service trainings to provide their services, and have a specific person supervise.
Article 21
Visit-care and phone-care service providers shall handle the following matters:
1. Setting the working contents and supervision procedures.
2. Making the service records.
3. Providing on-the-job trainings or appropriate training channels to actual service personnel.
Section 5 Home-Base Food Services
Article 22
Home-base food services include the followings:
1. Delivery of meals.
2. Providing individual food pursuant to the needs of the service recipient.
Article 23
Home-base food services are provided by the following institutions:
1. Medical care institutions, nursing institutions, and medical treatment legal persons.
2. Welfare institutions for senior citizens and welfare institutions for physically and mentally disabled citizens.
3. Incorporated charitable associations, foundations, social welfare entities, community development associations, and care service labor cooperatives.
4. Restaurants and other food and beverage enterprises.
Except for the home-base food service providers set forth in the previous paragraph, the municipal and county (city) competent authorities may organize local resources to provide services under special circumstances.
Article 24
Home-base food service providers shall equip with necessary facilities and equipment complied with hygienic requirements, and combine with a dietitian to provide services, if necessary.
Article 25
Home-base food service providers shall handle the following matters:
1. Setting the working contents and supervision procedures.
2. Making the service records.
3. Providing hygienic, safe, and nutrition-balanced food and beverage.
Section 6 Emergency Care Service
Article 26
Emergency care services include the followings:
1. Contacting with accident and emergency management entities.
2. Contacting with ambulances to provide emergency care.
3. Notifying the emergency contact.
Article 27
Emergency care services are provided by the following institutions:
1. Medical care institutions, nursing institutions, and medical treatment legal persons.
2. Welfare institutions for senior citizens and welfare institutions for physically and mentally disabled citizens.
3. Incorporated charitable associations, foundations, and social entities.
4. Security enterprises.
Article 28
Emergency care service providers shall place nursing personnel, and may place full-time or contract administrative personnel, social workers, or other staff members according to their operation needs.
Article 29
Emergency care service providers shall equip with the following facilities and equipment in the emergency care service center and the dwelling of service recipients:
1. Emergency care service center:
(1) A primary machine allowing the center and the service recipient to mutually communicate and lively interact under monitoring.
(2) Multi-support function equipment which ensures prompt and complete message processing when the system is exceptional.
(3) Equipment for monitoring exterior connections and exceptional alarms and records. Equipment for monitoring exterior connections and exceptional alarms and records of the center.
2. Dwelling of service recipients: signaling primary machine and wireless remote personal button.
Article 30
Emergency care service providers shall handle the following matters:
1. Signing a service contract with the service recipient before providing service to clearly stipulate rights and obligations of both parties.
2. Establishing complete data of service recipients.
3. Providing instructions and explanations to service recipients after installations, and conducting online learning instructions and testing with the users.
4. Monitoring the help messages 24 hours a day and contacting the emergency care immediately according to the service recipient’s needs.
5. Setting the emergency care procedures, making the emergency care records, organizing a alarm monthly report and keeping the report for three years.
6. Ensuring normal operation of emergency care system.
7. Regularly holding service satisfaction survey.
Section 7 Household Improvement Services
Article 31
Household improvement services include the followings:
1. Improvements of facilities and equipment in the bathroom and kitchen.
2. Improvements of the moving lines in the entrance, hallway, and stair, elimination of obstacles and unevenness, improvement of obstacles in the entrances and exits, and installation of handrails.
3. Other items need to be improved according to professional assessments.
Article 32
Household improvement services are provided by the following institutions:
1. Social welfare institutions and social welfare entities.
2. Construction and engineering enterprises.
Article 33
Household improvement service providers shall handle the following matters:
1. Actively protect senior citizens’ esteem and independence, establishing elder-friendly dwelling and environment.
2. Providing accessible space in accordance with the senior citizens’ individual needs.