The linked document below, “Best Practices for Health Care Service Firms,” is advisory only, though it may serve as the basis for regulation development in the future.
Personal care services, though frequently characterized as "nonmedical" services, may require touch or physical contact to support a client with activities of daily living such as feeding, toileting, bathing, dressing, grooming, transferring, ambulating, etc. The "Best Practices for Health Care Service Firms" has been developed as a supplemental resource to administrators and employees of Health Care Service Firms in the State of New Jersey for the delivery of personal care services.
This document incorporates statutory and regulatory provisions and provides non-binding, optional best practices to aid Health Care Service Firms in the delivery of these services. To the extent, if any, that this document conflicts with or exceeds the requirements of N.J.S.A. 34:8-43 et seq. or N.J.A.C. 13:45B-13.1 et seq., such laws and regulations govern the conduct of HCSFs. Notwithstanding use of the terms “shall” or “required" in the “Best Practices,” the contents remain aspirational only.
