79R16350 MSE-D
By: Nelson S.B. No. 874
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 874:
By: Hupp C.S.S.B. No. 874
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to quality-of-care monitoring visits to long-term care
facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 255.001(1), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) "Department" means the [Texas] Department of Aging
and Disability [Human] Services.
SECTION 2. Sections 255.003(a) and (f), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall establish regional offices with
one or more quality-of-care monitors, based on the number of
long-term care facilities in the region, to monitor the facilities
in the region on a regular, [unannounced,] aperiodic basis,
including nights, evenings, weekends, and holidays. A monitoring
visit conducted under this chapter may be announced or unannounced.
(f) The quality-of-care monitor shall include in a
monitoring [an assessment] visit:
(1) observation of the care and services rendered to
residents; and
(2) formal and informal interviews with residents,
family members, facility staff, resident guests, volunteers, other
regulatory staff, and representatives of a human rights advocacy
committee.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.