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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 2. HEALTH |
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Subtitle A. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH |
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Chapter 11. ORGANIZATION OF TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH |
Sec. 11.0045. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL PLAN
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(a) The board shall develop, publish, and to the extent allowed by law implement a comprehensive strategic and operational plan.
(b) The board shall publish the plan not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year. The board shall at a minimum:
(1) make the plan available on its generally accessible Internet site; and
(2) make printed copies of the plan available on request to members of the public.
(c) The plan at a minimum must include:
(1) a statement of the aim and purpose of each of the department's missions, including:
(A) the prevention of disease;
(B) the promotion of health;
(C) indigent health care;
(D) the protection of parents' fundamental right to direct the health care and general upbringing of their children;
(E) acute care services for which the department is responsible;
(F) health care facility regulation for which the department is responsible;
(G) the licensing of health professions for which the department is responsible; and
(H) all other health-related services for which the department is responsible under law;
(2) an analysis regarding how each of the department's missions relate to other department missions;
(3) a detailed analysis of how to integrate or continue to integrate department programs with other department programs, including the integration of information gathering and information management within and across programs, for the purpose of minimizing duplication of effort, increasing administrative efficiency, simplifying access to department programs, and more efficiently meeting the health needs of this state;
(4) a detailed proposal to integrate or continue to integrate department programs with other department programs during the two-year period covered by the plan, to the extent allowed by law and in accordance with the department's analysis;
(5) a determination regarding whether it is necessary to collect each type of information that the department collects, and for each type of information that it is necessary for the department to collect, whether the department is efficiently and effectively collecting, analyzing, and disseminating the information and protecting the privacy of individuals;
(6) an assessment of services provided by the department that evaluates the need for the department to provide those services in the future;
(7) a method for soliciting the advice and opinions of local health departments, hospital districts, and other public health entities, of recipients and providers of services that are related to the department's missions, and of advocates for recipients or providers for the purpose of identifying and assessing:
(A) the health-related needs of the state;
(B) ways in which the department's programs and information services can be better integrated and coordinated; and
(C) factors that the department should consider before adopting rules that affect recipients or providers of services that are related to the department's missions;
(8) a comprehensive inventory of health-related information resources that meet department criteria for usefulness and applicability to local health departments, to recipients or providers of services that are related to the department's missions, and to nonprofit entities, private businesses, and community groups with missions that are related to health;
(9) a statement regarding the ways in which the department will coordinate or attempt to coordinate with federal, state, local, and private programs that provide services similar to the services provided by the department;
(10) a list of other plans that the department is required to prepare under state law and a recommendation regarding which plans are obsolete or duplicate other required department plans; and
(11) an assessment of the extent to which previous plans prepared by the department under this section have effectively helped the department to identify and achieve its objectives, to improve its operations, or to guide persons who need to identify department services, identify department requirements, or communicate effectively with department personnel.