135.999 Home Health Care Services:
MSSNY encourages the stimulation of physician interest in, and acceptance of home care as an integral part of the overall continuum of medical care. We also emphasize the need for medical schools and internship programs to educate medical students, interns, residents, and practicing physicians in the value and proper use of home health care programs. Hospital boards and medical staffs should encourage community interest in support of home health care programs. Community health planning agencies should have representation from organizations concerned with providing home care services; and practicing physicians should involve themselves in developing home health care programs along with community health planning agencies.
MSSNY supports the concept that all home health agencies, voluntary or proprietary, should be subject to the same controls, regulations, and standards. MSSNY also supports the concept that the physician is responsible for monitoring the home health care of his patients, or for the transferal of this responsibility to another physician. (Council 9/14/77; Reaffirmed HOD 2013; Reaffirmed HOD 2023; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
