(a) All licensed facilities must report to HHSC the death of any resident in the facility and any resident who is transferred from the facility to a hospital and who dies within 24 hours after transfer.     
      (b) The facility must submit to HHSC Complaint and Incident Intake a standard HHSC form within ten working days after the last day of the month in which a resident death occurs. The form must include:      
        (1) name of deceased;       
        (2) social security number of the deceased;       
        (3) date of death; and       
        (4) name and address of the institution.       
      (c) These reports are confidential under the Texas Health and Safety Code,  §260A.016; however, a licensed facility must make available historical statistics provided to the facility by HHSC and must provide the statistics, if requested, to an applicant for admission or the applicant's representative.     
      (d) HHSC produces statistical information of official causes of death to determine patterns and trends of incidents of death among the elderly and in specific facilities and makes this information available to the public upon request.     
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §554.606 adopted to be effective May 1, 1995, 20 TexReg 2393; amended to be effective March 24, 2020, 45 TexReg 2025; transferred effective January 15, 2021, as published in the Texas Register December 11, 2020, 45 TexReg 8871