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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
SECTION/RULE §550.502 - Medical Services

Chapter Review Date (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.

Source Note: The provisions of this §550.502 adopted to be effective September 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 6569; transferred effective May 1, 2019, as published in the Texas Register April 12, 2019, 44 TexReg 1875.

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