Texas Health & Safety Code - Section 11.0045. Comprehensive Strategic And Operational Plan
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§ 11.0045. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL
PLAN. (a) The board shall develop, publish, and to the extent
allowed by law implement a comprehensive strategic and operational
plan.
(b) The board shall publish the plan not later than
September 1 of each even-numbered year. The board shall at a
minimum:
(1) make the plan available on its generally
accessible Internet site;
(2) make printed copies of the plan available on
request to members of the public; and
(3) send printed copies of the plan to the governor,
the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
representatives, the Legislative Budget Board, and the committees
of the senate and the house of representatives that have oversight
responsibilities regarding the board and the department.
(c) The plan at a minimum must include:
(1) a statement of the aim and purpose of each of the
department's missions, including:
(A) the prevention of disease;
(B) the promotion of health;
(C) indigent health care;
(D) the protection of parents' fundamental right
to direct the health care and general upbringing of their children;
(E) acute care services for which the department
is responsible;
(F) health care facility regulation for which the
department is responsible;
(G) the licensing of health professions for which
the department is responsible; and
(H) all other health-related services for which
the department is responsible under law;
(2) an analysis regarding how each of the department's
missions relate to other department missions;
(3) a detailed analysis of how to integrate or
continue to integrate department programs with other department
programs, including the integration of information gathering and
information management within and across programs, for the purpose
of minimizing duplication of effort, increasing administrative
efficiency, simplifying access to department programs, and more
efficiently meeting the health needs of this state;
(4) a detailed proposal to integrate or continue to
integrate department programs with other department programs
during the two-year period covered by the plan, to the extent
allowed by law and in accordance with the department's analysis;
(5) a determination regarding whether it is necessary
to collect each type of information that the department collects,
and for each type of information that it is necessary for the
department to collect, whether the department is efficiently and
effectively collecting, analyzing, and disseminating the
information and protecting the privacy of individuals;
(6) an assessment of services provided by the
department that evaluates the need for the department to provide
those services in the future;
(7) a method for soliciting the advice and opinions of
local health departments, hospital districts, and other public
health entities, of recipients and providers of services that are
related to the department's missions, and of advocates for
recipients or providers for the purpose of identifying and
assessing:
(A) the health-related needs of the state;
(B) ways in which the department's programs and
information services can be better integrated and coordinated; and
(C) factors that the department should consider
before adopting rules that affect recipients or providers of
services that are related to the department's missions;
(8) a comprehensive inventory of health-related
information resources that meet department criteria for usefulness
and applicability to local health departments, to recipients or
providers of services that are related to the department's
missions, and to nonprofit entities, private businesses, and
community groups with missions that are related to health;
(9) a statement regarding the ways in which the
department will coordinate or attempt to coordinate with federal,
state, local, and private programs that provide services similar to
the services provided by the department;
(10) a list of other plans that the department is
required to prepare under state law and a recommendation regarding
which plans are obsolete or duplicate other required department
plans; and
(11) an assessment of the extent to which previous
plans prepared by the department under this section have
effectively helped the department to identify and achieve its
objectives, to improve its operations, or to guide persons who need
to identify department services, identify department requirements,
or communicate effectively with department personnel.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1411, § 1.03, eff. Sept. 1,
1999.
Section: 1.003 1.004 1.005 11.001 11.002 11.003 11.004 11.0045 11.005 11.0055 11.006 11.007 11.008 11.009 11.010
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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