RSA 151:13-b Proceedings of Home Health Care Provider Quality Assurance Program; Confidentiality.
Title: XI - HOSPITALS AND SANITARIA
Chapter: 151 - RESIDENTIAL CARE AND HEALTH FACILITY LICENSING
I. In this section:
(a) "Records" means records of interviews, internal review and investigations, and all reports, statements, minutes, memoranda, charts, statistics, and other documentation generated during the activities of a quality assurance program. "Records" shall not mean original medical records or other records kept relative to any patient in the course of business of operating as a home health care provider.
(b) "Quality assurance program" means a comprehensive, ongoing, and organization-wide system of mechanisms established by a home health care provider, as defined in RSA 151:2-b, for monitoring and evaluating the quality and appropriateness of the care provided to patients, so that important problems and trends in the delivery of care are identified and ste