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Long-Term Care & Home Health
Compliance for long-term care, nursing facilities, home health, and hospice (HCSSA) — coverage triggers under Chapter 331 and PL 2024-10 when the facility or agency employs two or more registered nurses.
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Long-Term Care & Home Health
Long-Term Care WVP Committee Membership in Texas
Who must sit on a Texas nursing facility's workplace violence prevention committee under HSC Chapter 331 — required roles, the direct-care RN seat, and survey-defensible documentation.
9 min
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Hospice Workplace Violence in the Home Setting
The workplace violence risks unique to hospice care in the home — grief, family conflict, and crisis visits — and how Texas hospice agencies build a survey-defensible program.
9 min
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Home Health Workplace Violence: Protecting Lone Workers
How Texas home health and hospice agencies protect lone clinicians in uncontrolled environments — pre-visit screening, check-in protocols, and PL 2024-10 compliance.
8 min
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Home Health Check-In/Check-Out Escalation Protocol
A step-by-step missed check-out escalation protocol for Texas home health and hospice agencies — who gets called, in what order, and how to document it for HCSSA survey-readiness.
9 min
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HCSSA Annual WVP Plan Evaluation for Home Health
How a Texas home health or hospice agency runs the Chapter 331 annual workplace violence plan evaluation to its governing body — what to review, what to report, and how to document it.
9 min
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Family and Visitor Aggression in Long-Term Care
How Texas long-term care facilities manage aggressive family members and visitors as a workplace violence hazard — code-of-conduct policy, documentation, and survey-defensible response.
9 min
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Documenting Home-Based Workplace Violence Incidents
How Texas home health and hospice agencies capture field incidents and near-misses so the record survives an HCSSA survey — what to document, who reports, and how to trend it.
9 min
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Dementia, Delirium and Workplace Violence Documentation
How Texas long-term care facilities document dementia- and delirium-driven aggression as a recognized workplace violence hazard for a survey-defensible Chapter 331 program.
9 min
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Behavioral Care Plans as a Workplace Violence Control
How Texas long-term care facilities use individualized behavioral care plans to reduce resident-on-staff aggression — and document them as a worksite-analysis control under Chapter 331.
9 min
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Assisted Living and Texas Chapter 331: You're Excluded — Here's What Still Applies
Texas assisted living facilities (Ch. 247) are not covered by HSC Chapter 331 at any RN staffing level. What the exclusion actually means, the licensure caveats, and the obligations that still reach an ALF.
8 min
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HCSSA PL 2024-10 WVP Program: The Step-by-Step Guide
The definitive guide to building a Chapter 331 workplace violence prevention program for Texas home health and hospice agencies under HHSC Provider Letter PL 2024-10.
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A Survey-Readiness Audit scores your committee, plan, training, and governing-body reporting against every standard that applies to your facility — in one document.