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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 550LICENSING STANDARDS FOR PRESCRIBED PEDIATRIC EXTENDED CARE CENTERS
SUBCHAPTER CGENERAL PROVISIONS
DIVISION 5ADMISSION CRITERIA, CONFERENCE, ASSESSMENT, INTERDISCIPLINARY PLAN OF CARE, AND DISCHARGE OR TRANSFER
RULE §550.606Interdisciplinary Team

(a) A center must designate an IDT.

(b) The IDT must monitor the services provided to the minor at the center.

(c) A center must designate an RN to be a member of the IDT to:

  (1) provide coordination of care for the minor;

  (2) ensure continuous assessment of the minor's and the minor's parent's needs; and

  (3) implement the minor's interdisciplinary plan of care.

(d) The IDT must prepare a written plan of care for the minor as described in §15.607 of this division (relating to Initial and Updated Plan of Care).

(e) The IDT must include:

  (1) the minor's prescribing physician;

  (2) the center's nursing director or an RN designated by the nursing director;

  (3) the minor;

  (4) the minor's parent;

  (5) a social worker, if the minor is receiving social services at the center; and

  (6) another individual providing basic services to a minor if the minor is receiving basic services other than nursing services at the center.

(f) The IDT must participate in the development of a plan of care with goals and objectives for a minor that includes discharge planning when goals and objectives are met.


Source Note: The provisions of this §550.606 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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