DADS stakeholders now have until Feb. 6 to register for the Feb. 10, 2015, infection control joint training conference in Houston. DADS and DSHS are hosting a series of joint training conferences around the state to increase awareness of infection control and regulatory requirements in assisted living facilities, nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities. Other events are planned for this winter and spring in Austin, Abilene and Denton. More information for all the training events … [Read more...] about Registration Deadline Extended to Feb. 6, 2015, for Houston Infection Control Training

Starting March 1, 2015, nursing facility services for most adults ages 21 and older will be provided statewide through the STAR+PLUS Medicaid managed care program. Residents should select a STAR+PLUS health plan by February 6, 2015. This letter serves as a notice to providers to encourage assisting nursing facility residents with questions they may have about the enrollment process. The attached flyer provides helpful information and resources to support residents in making a … [Read more...] about Medicaid Managed Care

The purpose of this letter is to provide further guidance to an applicant for a small house waiver regarding the schematic plan requirement. Provider Letter 14-09, dated June 23, 2014, notified nursing facility Medicaid bed waiver applicants of the amendment to Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Title 40, Part 1, Chapter 19, §19.2322. This amendment requires an applicant for a small house waiver to submit: ·  schematic building plans with the waiver application; and ·  final … [Read more...] about Small House Waivers

Cost report training is required every other year for the odd-year cost report in order for thepreparer to be qualified to submit both that odd-year cost report and the following even-year costreport. Preparers who completed cost report training for the 2013 cost report for a specificprogram will not be required to complete additional cost report training for that program in orderto prepare a 2014 cost report. Please note that from this year forward, all Texas Health and Human Services … [Read more...] about 2014 Cost Report Training Information

DADS News -- How to Stick to Your Resolutions This is the time of year when many of us — 40 percent, by some estimates — start to think about resolutions, and what we might do in the new year to make us healthy and happier. With every good intention we vow to eat better, lose weight, be more active or some combination of these and other self-improvement goals. However, few of us keep our resolutions. Research by the University of Scranton suggests that a mere 8 percent of us achieve our lofty … [Read more...] about DADS news – sticking to resolutions