The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Austin and Travis County, Texas (long-term care facilities and nursing homes) · Austin · Texas
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 81.082 and 81.084 (control measures), as recited
- Issued
- 2020-04-07 Apr. 7, 2020
- Effective
- On service on the facility (read as 2020-04-07)
- In force
- Apr. 7, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- facility owners and directors of long-term care facilities and nursing homes in Austin and Travis County
- Functions reached
- 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)
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
You are required to put the following control measures in place or ensure that they are put in place: 'Help Prevent Disease' 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 & Safety Code ch. 81 control-measure order; penalty not recited
Notes
Facility-directed template ('(name and address of property)'); in addition to HHSC's COVID-19 Response for Long Term Care Facilities (April 7, 2020) and GA-08's visitor ban (TX file).
Retrieval noteThe date field reads 'DATE' (template). Date approximate; cite as the Health Authority's April 2020 long-term care control order.