Section 554.1104 - Dietary Consultant Requirements(a) The facility must ensure a qualified dietitian is available as frequently and for such time as is necessary to assure each resident a diet that meets the daily nutritional and special dietary needs of each resident, based upon the acuity and clinical needs of the resident. The facility must ensure that monthly dietary consultant hours are provided, at a minimum, as follows: (1) facility population: 60 residents or under - eight hours;(2) facility population: each additional 30 residents or fraction thereof - additional four hours.(b) To meet the consultant-hour requirement, time is accrued and counted exactly as rendered.(c) The facility must outline consultant services in a signed contract. This requirement does not apply to a facility that employs a qualified dietitian on the facility's staff.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 554.1104
The provisions of this §19.1104 adopted to be effective May 1, 1995, 20 TexReg 2393; amended to be effective March 1, 1998, 23 TexReg 1314; amended to be effective December 1, 2000, 25 TexReg 11665; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 12, March 20, 2020, TexReg 2049, eff. 3/24/2020; Entire chapter transferred from Title 40, Pt. 1, Ch. 19 by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 50, December 11, 2020, TexReg 8871, eff. 1/15/2021