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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 32.044

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Known as the Maternal and Infant Health Improvement Act

The act spans §§ 32–32 (34 sections).

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

(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 department 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.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.