Section 350.1250 Physical and Occupational Therapy Services

Section 350

Section 350.1250  Physical

and Occupational Therapy Services

a)         Physical and occupational therapy services shall be provided

as needed by the residents through personal contact of the therapists directly

with the residents or indirectly with persons involved with the residents.

b)         Physical therapy and occupational therapy by the facility or

by arrangements with an outside resource shall provide treatment training

programs that are designed to preserve and improve abilities for independent

function, such as range of motion, strength, tolerance, coordination, and activities

of daily living; and to prevent, insofar as possible, irreducible or

progressive disabilities, through means such as the use of orthotic and

prosthetic appliances, assistive and adaptive devices, positioning, behavior,

adaptation, and sensory stimulation.

c)         The therapist shall function closely with the resident's

primary physician and with other medical specialists and treatment training

progress shall be recorded regularly, evaluated periodically, and used as the

basis for continuation or change of the resident's program.

d)         Evaluation results, treatment objectives, plans, procedures,

and continuing observations of treatment progress shall be recorded accurately,

summarized, communicated, and included in the resident's record.