Sec. 32.044. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

(a) Each voluntary perinatal health care system must have:

(1) a coordinating board responsible for ensuring, providing, or coordinating planning access to services, data collection, and provider education;

(2) access to appropriate emergency medical services;

(3) risk assessment, transport, and transfer protocols for perinatal patients;

(4) one or more health care facilities categorized according to perinatal care capabilities using standards adopted by board rule; and

(5) documentation of broad-based participation in planning by providers of perinatal services and community representatives throughout the defined geographic region.

(b) This subchapter does not prohibit a health care facility from providing services that it is authorized to provide under a license issued to the facility by the department.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 124, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.