Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 550 - LICENSING STANDARDS FOR PRESCRIBED PEDIATRIC EXTENDED CARE CENTERS
Subchapter C - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Division 4 - GENERAL SERVICES
Section 550.502 - Medical Services

(a) A center must ensure the provision of medical services based on the needs of a minor, in accordance with a minor's plan of care and as ordered by a minor's prescribing physician.

(b) A center must ensure that a minor's prescribing physician maintains responsibility for the overall medical therapeutic plan of a minor and consults and collaborates with the staff providing services in a center.

(c) A center's nursing director or designee must communicate with each minor's prescribing physician at least every 90 days or more frequently when there is a health status or physical status change in a minor's condition.

(d) A center must adopt and enforce a written policy requiring that therapists who provide services to a minor at the center consult with a minor's prescribing physician directly or coordinate with the clinical staff at least every 180 days or more frequently when there is a health status or physical status change in a minor's condition.