ADEQUACY OF TREATMENT
Known as the Texas Mental Health Code
The act spans §§ 571–580 (237 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Texas West Oaks Hospital, LP v. Williams (2012)
Most recently applied in Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. and Mission Vista Behavioral Health Services, Inc. D/B/A Mission Vista Behavioral Health Center v. Kenneth Palit (August 2013)
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The facility administrator of an inpatient mental health facility shall provide adequate medical and psychiatric care and treatment to every patient in accordance with the highest standards accepted in medical practice.
(b) The facility administrator of an inpatient mental health facility may give the patient accepted psychiatric treatment and therapy.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.