Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 13 - Department Hospitals And Respiratory Facilities

SUBCHAPTER A CARE AND TREATMENT IN DEPARTMENT HOSPITALS

• Texas Section 13.002 - Admission Of Other Patients
  (a) The department may admit to any hospital under its supervision a patient who: (1) is eligible to receive patient services under a department program;...
• Texas Section 13.003 - Services At Rio Grande State Center
  (a) The primary purpose of the Rio Grande State Center is to provide inpatient and outpatient services, either directly or by contract with one or...
• Texas Section 13.004 - Treatment Of Certain Persons With Mental Illness Or An Intellectual Disability
  (a) The department or the Department of Aging and Disability Services, as appropriate, may transfer a person with mental illness or an intellectual disability who...
• Texas Section 13.005 - Care And Treatment Of Certain Patients
  (a) The department shall fully develop essential services needed for the control of tuberculosis. To provide those services, the department may contract for the support,...
• Texas Section 13.006 - Purpose Of Tuberculosis Control Program
  The primary objectives of the tuberculosis control program are: (1) case-finding; (2) inpatient and outpatient treatment; and (3) the eventual eradication of tuberculosis. Acts 1989,...

SUBCHAPTER B TEXAS TUBERCULOSIS CODE

• Texas Section 13.007 - Colonel H
  WILLIAM "BILL" CARD, JR., OUTPATIENT CLINIC. The outpatient clinic operated by the South Texas Health Care System in Harlingen, Texas, is named the Colonel H....
• Texas Section 13.031 - Short Title
  This subchapter may be cited as the Texas Tuberculosis Code. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
• Texas Section 13.032 - Purpose
  The purpose of this subchapter is to: (1) enable persons with tuberculosis to obtain needed care; (2) provide care and treatment for those persons; and...
• Texas Section 13.033 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Legally responsible person" means a parent, guardian, or spouse, or any person whom the laws of this state hold responsible for...
• Texas Section 13.034 - Duties Of Executive Commissioner And Department
  (a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules relating to: (1) the management of public health hospitals; (2) the duties of officers and employees of those...
• Texas Section 13.035 - Employment Of Hospital Administrators
  (a) The department shall employ a qualified hospital administrator for each public health hospital. (b) A hospital administrator employed under this section is not required...
• Texas Section 13.036 - Patient Admission; Examination Certificate
  (a) A resident of this state who has tuberculosis may be admitted to a public health hospital. A person who is not a resident of...
• Texas Section 13.037 - Determination Of Residency
  (a) A person is a resident of this state if the person: (1) is physically present and living voluntarily in this state; (2) intends to...
• Texas Section 13.038 - Classification Of Patients; Lien
  (a) A patient admitted to a public health hospital is a public patient and classified as indigent, nonindigent, or nonresident. (b) An indigent public patient...
• Texas Section 13.039 - Collection Of State's Claim
  (a) A state claim for patient support and maintenance may be collected through an action brought against the patient or the person legally responsible for...
• Texas Section 13.040 - Effect Of Indigent Health Care And Treatment Act
  If an indigent or nonindigent public patient is eligible for health care assistance from a county hospital or public hospital under Chapter 61 (Indigent Health...
• Texas Section 13.041 - Return Of Certain Nonresidents; Reciprocal Agreements
  (a) The department may: (1) return a nonresident patient admitted to a public health hospital to the proper agency of the state of the patient's...
• Texas Section 13.042 - Discrimination Prohibited
  (a) A public health hospital may not discriminate against a patient. (b) Each patient is entitled to equal facilities, attention, and treatment. However, a public...
• Texas Section 13.043 - Gratuities Prohibited
  (a) A patient in a public health hospital may not offer an officer, agent, or employee of the hospital a tip, payment, or reward of...
• Texas Section 13.044 - Private Accommodations
  (a) On the request of any charitable organization in this state, the department may permit the erection, furnishing, and maintenance by the charitable organization of...
• Texas Section 13.045 - Donation Of Land By County
  (a) A county may donate and convey land to the state in consideration of the establishment of a public health hospital by the executive commissioner....
• Texas Section 13.046 - Admission Of Nonresident Patients
  (a) The department may enter into an agreement with an agency of another state responsible for the care of residents of that state who have...

Last modified: September 28, 2016