Section 550.605 - Initial and Updated Comprehensive Assessment(a) A center's RN must conduct and document a specific initial comprehensive assessment that identifies the minor's medical, nursing, psychosocial, therapeutic, nutritional, dietary, functional abilities, educational, and developmental needs and the adult minor's or minor's parent's training needs.(b) The initial comprehensive assessment must include the minor's discharge planning, including transition support, self-advocacy guidance, and coordination of services required by the minor and the minor's parent.(c) The initial comprehensive assessment must be conducted in consultation with an adult minor and the minor's parent.(d) An RN must complete an initial comprehensive assessment no earlier than three business days before the minor is admitted to the center and no later than the date the minor is admitted to the center.(e) An RN must conduct, in consultation with a minor's parent or an adult minor, a comprehensive assessment of the minor at least once every 180 days after admitting the minor into the center. An RN must conduct a new comprehensive assessment on the minor when the minor has a change of condition or the minor's needs change.(f) The updated comprehensive assessment described in subsection (e) of this section must: (1) identify a minor's ongoing medical, nursing, psychosocial, therapeutic, nutritional, dietary, functional, educational, and developmental needs and the training needs of the adult minor or parents of the minor; and(2) include a minor's discharge planning, detailing transition support, if needed, self-advocacy guidance, and coordination with the minor's parent or the adult minor.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 550.605
The provisions of this §550.605 adopted to be effective September 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 6569; Transferred from Title 40, Chapter 15 by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 15, April 12, 2019, TexReg 1875, eff. 5/1/2019; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 39, September 27, 2024, TexReg 7931, eff. 10/16/2024