Sec. 1070.104. HOSPITAL SYSTEM; ANCILLARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES SYSTEM  


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  • (a) The district shall provide for the establishment of a hospital system by:

    (1) purchasing, constructing, acquiring, repairing, or renovating buildings and equipment;

    (2) equipping the buildings; and

    (3) administering the buildings and equipment for hospital purposes.

    (b) The hospital and ancillary health care services systems may include:

    (1) facilities and equipment to provide domiciliary care and treatment of the sick or injured;

    (2) outpatient clinics;

    (3) dispensaries;

    (4) geriatric domiciliary care;

    (5) convalescent home facilities;

    (6) physicians' offices;

    (7) home health services;

    (8) durable medical equipment;

    (9) long-term care;

    (10) skilled nursing care;

    (11) intermediate nursing care;

    (12) hospice care;

    (13) ambulatory surgery centers;

    (14) urgent care facilities;

    (15) rural health clinics;

    (16) operation of a mobile emergency medical service;

    (17) necessary nurses' domiciliaries and training centers;

    (18) blood banks;

    (19) research centers or laboratories; and

    (20) any other facilities or equipment the board considers necessary to provide hospital and ancillary health care services.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 , Sec. 1.02, eff. April 1, 2009.