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Kidney Health Care is a statewide program that helps Texans with end-stage renal disease pay for: Dialysis treatments Access surgery Drugs Travel to transplant or dialysis services (mileage reimbursement) Medicare premiums

Rules and Standards for Child Care in Texas

Information about Licensed Child Care & Child-Placing Agency Administrator Licensing in Texas.

Information about controlling persons for child care providers.

How to become a child care home provider in Texas.

Information about Texas Child Day Care Provider licensing and regulation.

The HHS Centralized Background Check Unit is required to do background checks to see if a person has a criminal history or an abuse and neglect history that might be a risk to the health and safety of children. Background checks are required for Child Care providers, Residential Child Care providers, and Foster and adoptive homes.

Licensing and regulatory information for residential child care operations in Texas.

Texas HHS protects children by regulating and educating child care providers.

Child Care Regulation (CCR) invites you to review and provide comments on the potential rule changes from Nov. 1 through Nov. 15.

CCR is updating the Chapter 748 and 749 minimum standards publication and will publish the updates by Oct. 19, 2023.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will host a webinar for HCS, TxHmL, ICF/IID providers and Provider Investigations regarding the latest information from LTCR.

HHSC has published in the Texas Register proposed rule changes in Title 1, Chapter 351, Coordinated Planning and Delivery of Health and Human Services, that will affect alternative Administrator Licenses for military members, spouses and veterans.

Beginning Oct. 1, if you have technical issues with your Child Care Regulation online account, call the HHSC IT Help Desk at 855-435-7181.

HHSC adopted new rules in Title 26, Chapter 745, Subchapter J, to replace repealed rules in that same subchapter.