{"id":"MET-AUS-033","kind":"order","level":"county","jurisdiction":"Austin and Travis County, Texas (long-term care facilities and nursing homes)","state":"TX","metro":"AUS","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Austin-Travis County Health Authority (Mark E. Escott, MD, MPH, Interim Health Authority)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code §§ 81.082 and 81.084 (control measures), as recited","instrument":"Health Authority Order of Control Measures for Vulnerable Populations at Long-Term Care Facilities and/or Nursing Homes (facility-directed template)","title":"Control measures on long-term care facilities and nursing homes (signage, sanitizer, entry screening, critical-assistance visitors only, reporting)","dateIssued":"2020-04-07","effective":"On service on the facility","end":"","startDate":"2020-04-07","endDate":"2020-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["facility owners and directors of long-term care facilities and nursing homes in Austin and Travis County"],"clause":"You are required to put the following control measures in place or ensure that they are put in place: \u0027Help Prevent Disease\u0027 signage... must be displayed prominently in the facility...; Hand sanitizer must be available and supplied to employees, patients, visitors, and volunteers; [the facility must symptom check all employees, patients,] visitors, and volunteers prior to entry to the facility (except for 9-1-1 [responders])...; Only visitors providing critical assistance should be permitted entry into [the facility]....","enforcement":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code ch. 81 control-measure order; penalty not recited","functions":["RS residential care: entry screening","VS visitation limited to critical assistance","IC infection control and reporting","WF staff screened before every shift","SC supplies (signage, sanitizer)"],"notes":"Facility-directed template (\u0027(name and address of property)\u0027); in addition to HHSC\u0027s COVID-19 Response for Long Term Care Facilities (April 7, 2020) and GA-08\u0027s visitor ban (TX file).","sourceUrl":"","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":124428,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-AUS","url":"/library/MET-AUS-033","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-AUS-033","citation":"Austin-Travis County Health Authority (Mark E. Escott, MD, MPH, Interim Health Authority), Health Authority Order of Control Measures for Vulnerable Populations at Long-Term Care Facilities and/or Nursing Homes (facility-directed template) (Apr. 7, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-033)","stateName":"Texas","related":[]}