(a) Each resident must receive, and the facility must provide, the necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable, physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being consistent with the resident's comprehensive assessment and care plan.
(1) Based on the comprehensive assessment of a resident and consistent with the resident's needs and choices, the facility must provide the necessary care and services to ensure that a resident's abilities in activities of daily living do not diminish unless circumstances of the resident's clinical condition demonstrate that such diminution was unavoidable.
(2) This includes the facility ensuring that:
(b) The facility must provide care and services in accordance with subsection (a) of this section for the following activities of daily living:
(1) hygiene - bathing, dressing, grooming, and oral care;
(2) mobility - transfer and ambulation, including walking;
(3) elimination - toileting;
(4) dining - eating including meals and snacks; and
(5) communication - speech, language, and other functional communication systems.
(c) If a child is admitted to a facility, care must be provided to meet the child's unique medical and developmental needs.
(d) Pediatric residents should be matched with roommates of similar age and developmental levels.
Source Note: The provisions of this §554.701 adopted 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