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It defines home care service components, outlines objectives including legal compliance and non-proselytising, and specifies access-to-care processes via the Integrated Referral Management System. 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This document states the requirements for the Approved Provider 1 receiving Government subsidies for the provision of home care services.  \n2. Home care is comprised of the following services:  \n(i) Home Health, comprising Home Medical (HM) and Home Nursing (HN);  \n(ii) Home Personal Care (HPC); and  \n(iii) Home Therapy (HT), comprising Home Rehabilitation, Homebased Exercise Training, and Home Environment Review.  \n3. The Approved Provider is to note that the Ministry of Health (“the Authority”) retains the right to review and update this document, by providing not less than fourteen (14) days’ written notice of the revision to the Approved Provider.  \n4. The Approved Provider should ensure that all relevant and applicable laws, legislations and regulations in relation to the provision of home care services are adhered to (e.g. Personal Data Protection Act (Cap. 26); Limitation Act (Cap. 163); Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185), if provider carries emergency medicines/ or a medicine bag) .  \n5. The Approved Provider shall be secular in its approach and be respectfully mindful of the religious background of each client in the provision of care. The Approved Provider shall not proselytise (in areas including religion, belief and opinion) and shall take all reasonable precautions, measures and means to prevent proselytising by its care staff and/ or volunteers.  \n(2) ACCESS TO CARE  \n6. Referrals. The Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) is the central co-ordinating body for the placement of clients to Intermediate-Long Term Care (ILTC) services. All clients receiving Government subsidies for home care services must be referred through AIC’s Integrated Referral Management System (“IRMS”) . The Approved Provider shall raise a self-referral through IRMS for walk-in Subsidised Clients (i.e. cases not referred through AIC) .  \n7. Admission criteria: The Approved Provider shall define its admission criteria in accordance with the eligibility criteria and service scope for home care services as laid out by the Authority. However, the Approved Provider may limit its admission criteria based on their geographic coverage zone.  \n8. The criteria shall be applied uniformly across all Clients referred to the Approved Provider. If the Approved Provider wishes to have additional admission criteria in place, prior approval from the Authority is to be sought.  \n1 An entity or organisation approved by Ministry of Health to provide step-down care in the form of home care services pursuant to the Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act (Cap. 173A) .  \n9. Clients shall not be discriminated based on their race, religion, language or gender. Clients shall also not be denied admission to home care services based on the medical conditions listed in Table 1 , unless deemed by a medical practitioner registered with Singapore Medical Council (“SMC”) (“registered medical practitioner”), nurse registered with the Singapore Nursing Board (“SNB”)(“registered nurse”) or therapist registered with the Allied Health Professions Council (“AHPC”) (“registered therapist”) to not be able to benefit from home care services.  \n\n| • Multi-drug Resistant Organisms (“MDRO”)(Colonised)\u003Cbr>• Psychiatric/ Dementia diagnosis\u003Cbr>• Parkinson’s Disease\u003Cbr>• Cancer (with a prognosis of more than one year)\u003Cbr>• Human immunodeficiency virus (“HIV”) positive\u003Cbr>• Hepatitis\u003Cbr>• Nasogastric/ Gastrostomy Feeding\u003Cbr>• Urinary catheter/ Supra-pubic catheter care\u003Cbr>• Colostomy care | Accept Clients with these conditions |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cardiac/ Respiratory conditions | Accept Clients with stable cardiac/ respiratory conditions |\n| Pulmonary Tuberculosis (“PTB”) | Accept treated and existing PTB Clients who are not infectious |\n\nTable 1: Admissions for Clients with Medical Conditions  \n10. Eligibility Criteria: The subvention eligibility criteria for the home care services is at Table 2 below:  \n\n| Ser","cbCaigMRNykAVJgB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigMRNykAVJgB","pdf",342392,22,"English","# Objectives\n# Access to Care\n## Referrals\n## Admission criteria\n## Eligibility criteria\n## Table 1: Admissions for Clients with Medical Conditions\n## Table 2: Eligibility Criteria for Home Care Services","[{\"question\":\"What services are included in home care under these requirements?\",\"answer\":\"Home care includes Home Health (Home Medical and Home Nursing), Home Personal Care, and Home Therapy (Home Rehabilitation, Homebased Exercise Training, and Home Environment Review).\"},{\"question\":\"How do subsidised clients access home care services?\",\"answer\":\"Clients receiving Government subsidies must be referred through the Agency for Integrated Care’s Integrated Referral Management System (IRMS). 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