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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
Assisted Living Workplace Violence Compliance in Texas
Do Texas assisted living facilities fall under HSC Chapter 331? A coverage decision guide on the two-RN threshold, HHSC licensure, and building a survey-defensible WVP program.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Multi-Branch HCSSA: A WVP Program of Record
How a multi-branch Texas home health or hospice agency builds one survey-defensible workplace violence program of record across all locations under Chapter 331 and PL 2024-10.
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Nursing Facility Workplace Violence Prevention in Texas
How Texas Chapter 331 applies to nursing facilities that employ two or more RNs — the committee, plan, training, and annual evaluation a licensing surveyor checks.
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Pre-Visit Risk Screening for Home Health Field Staff
How Texas home health and hospice agencies build a defensible pre-visit risk screening and check-in/check-out process for field staff under Chapter 331 and PL 2024-10.
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Resident-on-Staff Aggression in Long-Term Care
A compliance-grounded approach to resident-on-staff aggression in long-term care — documenting dementia and delirium-driven behaviors for a survey-defensible WVP program.
8 min
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The Two-RN Coverage Test for Nursing Facilities & HCSSAs
How the two-employed-RNs threshold decides whether Texas Chapter 331 applies to your nursing facility or home health agency — worked through with the PL 2024-10 definition.
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WVP Training for a Distributed Home Health Workforce
How Texas home health and hospice agencies deliver and document workplace violence training to a scattered field workforce under Chapter 331, PL 2024-10, and Joint Commission OME.
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Read article →Know where your program stands
A Survey-Readiness Audit scores your committee, plan, training, and governing-body reporting against every standard that applies to your facility — in one document.