26 Tex. Admin. Code § 554.701 - Quality of Life
(a) Each resident
must receive, and the facility must provide, the necessary care and services to
attain or maintain the highest practicable, physical, mental, and psychosocial
well-being consistent with the resident's comprehensive assessment and care
plan.
(1) Based on the comprehensive
assessment of a resident and consistent with the resident's needs and choices,
the facility must provide the necessary care and services to ensure that a
resident's abilities in activities of daily living do not diminish unless
circumstances of the resident's clinical condition demonstrate that such
diminution was unavoidable.
(2)
This includes the facility ensuring that:
(A)
a resident is given the appropriate treatment and services to maintain or
improve the ability to carry out the activities of daily living, including
those specified in subsection (b) of this section;
(B) a resident who is unable to carry out
activities of daily living receives the necessary services to maintain good
nutrition, grooming, and personal and oral hygiene; and
(C) personnel provide basic life support,
including CPR, to a resident requiring such emergency care prior to the arrival
of emergency medical personnel and subject to related physician orders and the
resident's advance directives.
(b) The facility must provide care and
services in accordance with subsection (a) of this section for the following
activities of daily living:
(1) hygiene -
bathing, dressing, grooming, and oral care;
(2) mobility - transfer and ambulation,
including walking;
(3) elimination
- toileting;
(4) dining - eating
including meals and snacks; and
(5)
communication - speech, language, and other functional communication
systems.
(c) If a child
is admitted to a facility, care must be provided to meet the child's unique
medical and developmental needs.
(d) Pediatric residents should be matched
with roommates of similar age and developmental levels.
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