26 Tex. Admin. Code § 211.208 - Notifications
(a) If a client becomes ill or injured at the
DAHS facility, the director/nurse must notify a relative or other responsible
person the same day of the occurrence. Clients with communicable diseases
cannot attend the DAHS facility until the physician has released the client.
Examples of communicable disease are lice and scabies.
(b) No later than the first DADS workday
after becoming aware of changes in the client's status or condition, the DAHS
facility must verbally notify the caseworker or staff in the caseworker's
office about any change that may require a change in the client's plan of care,
units, or service termination. The DAHS facility must follow up this verbal
notification in writing, to the caseworker, using DADS' Case Information form.
Written notification must occur within seven days after verbal
notification.
(c) If a client is
absent from a regularly scheduled program, DAHS facility staff must contact the
client or someone knowledgeable about his condition the same day that the
absence occurs. If DAHS facility staff are unable to contact the client or
someone knowledgeable about his condition, staff document this in the client's
record.
(d) The DAHS facility must
verbally notify DADS by the next DADS workday and in writing within seven days
after verbal notification of the following changes in DAHS facility operations:
(1) change in operation, telephone number,
and location of administrative office;
(2) change in hours of operation;
and
(3) change in director,
activities director, nurse, or membership of governing board.
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