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Advance care planning means planning ahead for how you want to be treated if you are very ill or near death. This page provides information about that process for both providers and consumers.

Listing of handbooks and forms for nursing facility providers in Texas

Information on how to become a licensed Nursing Facility provider in Texas.

The term "negotiated rulemaking" specifies a particular process to be used to draft a proposed rule. This process provides for a group of 12-15 stakeholders who represent differing interests affected by the proposed rule to negotiate and potentially reach agreement on a proposed rule.

HHSC is mandated to create and provide nursing facilities with one of the posters required by Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Part 1, Chapter 554, §554.1921(e), the notice of how to file a complaint, giving the toll-free telephone number. This page provides information on how to obtain these posters.

Each training will offer guidance for the new CMS All-Payer OASIS Submission Requirement, effective Jan. 1, 2025, and mandatory by July 1, 2025. 

Joint Training will be hosting an in-person emergency preparedness training for long-term care providers on April 17.

Long-term Care program providers and regulatory staff are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in April and May, .

HHSC Long-Term Care Regulation will host a webinar for Home and Community Support Services Agencies on April 17 from 11 a.m. to noon.

The OASIS training course is for administrators and alternate administrators employed at Medicare certified home health agencies and licensed home health agencies seeking Medicare certification.

FEI Systems will host a monthly provider demonstration webinar on March 11, 2025, from 10–11 a.m.

  HHSC Long-Term Care Regulation Joint Training is offering webinars in March for registered nurses and physical, occupational and speech therapists who collect Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.  

HHSC will be providing ongoing opportunities for CLASS and DBMD providers and FMSAs to hear about recent program updates.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation is hosting a nursing facility provider webinar on March 12 to provide the latest updates from LTCR.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued QSO-25-12-NH (PDF).