Section 700.506 - What is the Complex Medical Needs or Medically Fragile Support Services Package?(a) A trauma-informed foster home that in addition to providing a child's basic living needs, has enhanced training and skill in providing and coordinating services to care for and support children, youth, and young adults who may present with a medical diagnosis that requires constant monitoring, access to skilled nursing and other care up to 24 hours a day/7 days a week (based on eligibility), or who may present with a complex medical need such as uncontrolled diabetes, and for whom the individual's well-being depends on the support, direction, or service of others.(b) This Service Package is designed to offer community-based care, medical, and other therapy/rehabilitation services to support recovery (if applicable), well-being, and improve the quality of life for children, youth, and young adults, based on their individual strengths and needs, and in accordance with their customized Service Plan and permanency goal.(c) Child Placing Agencies and Foster Family Home Caregivers must be Credentialed to provide Complex Medical Needs or Medically Fragile Support Services in accordance with the guidelines and requirements as defined by the Department of Family and Protective Services pursuant to Chapter 40 of the Texas Human Resources Code.40 Tex. Admin. Code § 700.506
Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 51, December 20, 2024, TexReg 10391, eff. 12/22/2024