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The Minimum Data Set is a standardized collection of demographic and clinical information that describes a person's overall condition. All licensed nursing facilities in Texas are required to submit MDS assessments for all residents admitted into their facility. The current version is MDS 3.0.

Home Delivered Meals provides nutritious noontime meals delivered to people in their homes on a scheduled basis. Meals may also be delivered to a location other than an individual's home, provided the location is within the provider's service area and is approved by the case worker. Those eligible for HDM are aged 18 years or older. An interest list is maintained for people interested in applying for this program. This page contains information for HDM providers.

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has published the 2025 Proprietary System Operator (PSO) Operational Readiness Review (ORR) onboarding schedule and the new PSO Onboarding Standard Process Overview and Timeline (PDF) to the TMHP EVV webpage.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in December.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following webinar trainings hosted in December.

Trainings on the Outcome Assessment Information Set will be offered throughout December.

To enhance program integrity, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is reducing the use of alternative devices as an approved method to clock in and clock out of for Electronic Visit Verification required services.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in November and December.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following webinar trainings hosted in November.

The Texas Culture Change Coalition will host their fall 2024 in-person conference, “Inspire, Educate & Empower Person-Centered Dementia Caregivers.”

The current emergency communication system (Connect) for long-term care providers will end on Oct. 31 and will be replaced by the new system (AlertMedia), which is anticipated to go live no later than Dec. 1.