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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 4. HEALTH FACILITIES |
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Subtitle F. POWERS AND DUTIES OF HOSPITALS |
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Chapter 311. POWERS AND DUTIES OF HOSPITALS |
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Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Sec. 311.004. STANDARDIZED PATIENT RISK IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
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(a) In this section:
(1) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(2) "Hospital" means a general or special hospital as defined by Section 241.003. The term includes a hospital maintained or operated by this state.
(b) The department shall coordinate with hospitals to develop a statewide standardized patient risk identification system under which a patient with a specific medical risk may be readily identified through the use of a system that communicates to hospital personnel the existence of that risk. The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall appoint an ad hoc committee of hospital representatives to assist the department in developing the statewide system.
(c) The department shall require each hospital to implement and enforce the statewide standardized patient risk identification system developed under Subsection (b) unless the department authorizes an exemption for the reason stated in Subsection (d).
(d) The department may exempt from the statewide standardized patient risk identification system a hospital that seeks to adopt another patient risk identification methodology supported by evidence-based protocols for the practice of medicine.
(e) The department shall modify the statewide standardized patient risk identification system in accordance with evidence-based medicine as necessary.
(f) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission may adopt rules to implement this section.