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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 773.114

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Known as the Emergency Health Care Act

The act spans §§ 773–773 (116 sections).

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 267, eff

(a) Each emergency medical services and trauma care system must have:

(1) local or regional medical control for all field care and transportation, consistent with geographic and current communications capability;

(2) triage, transport, and transfer protocols; and

(3) one or more hospitals categorized according to trauma care capabilities using standards adopted by department rule.

(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.