Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 98 - Reporting Of Health Care-associated Infections And Preventable Adverse Events

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER C DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT; REPORTING SYSTEM

• Texas Section 98.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 946 , Sec. 1.09(h)(1), eff. September 1, 2015. (2) "Ambulatory surgical center" means...
• Texas Section 98.101 - Rulemaking
  (a) The executive commissioner may adopt rules for the department to implement this chapter. (b) The executive commissioner may not adopt rules that conflict with...
• Texas Section 98.102 - Departmental Responsibilities; Reporting System
  (a) The department shall establish the Texas Health Care-Associated Infection and Preventable Adverse Events Reporting System within the department. The purpose of the reporting system...
• Texas Section 98.103 - Reportable Infections
  (a) A health care facility, other than a pediatric and adolescent hospital, shall report to the department the incidence of surgical site infections, including the...
• Texas Section 98.1045 - Reporting Of Preventable Adverse Events
  (a) Each health care facility shall report to the department the occurrence of any of the following preventable adverse events involving the facility's patient: (1)...
• Texas Section 98.1046 - Public Reporting Of Certain Potentially Preventable Events For Hospitals
  (a) The department, using data submitted under Chapter 108, shall publicly report for hospitals in this state risk-adjusted outcome rates for those potentially preventable complications...
• Texas Section 98.1047 - Studies On Long-term Care Facility Reporting Of Adverse Health Conditions
  (a) The department shall study which adverse health conditions commonly occur in long-term care facilities and, of those health conditions, which are potentially preventable. (b)...
• Texas Section 98.105 - Reporting System Modifications
  The executive commissioner by rule may modify in accordance with this chapter the list of procedures that are reportable under Section 98.103. The modifications must...
• Texas Section 98.106 - Departmental Summary
  (a) The department shall compile and make available to the public a summary, by health care facility, of: (1) the infections reported by facilities under...
• Texas Section 98.1065 - Study Of Incentives And Recognition For Health Care Quality
  The department shall conduct a study on developing a recognition program to recognize exemplary health care facilities for superior quality of health care and make...
• Texas Section 98.107 - Education And Training Regarding Reporting System
  The department shall provide education and training for health care facility staff regarding this chapter. The training must be reasonable in scope and focus primarily...
• Texas Section 98.108 - Frequency Of Reporting
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish the frequency of reporting by health care facilities required under Sections 98.103 and 98.1045. (b) Except as...
• Texas Section 98.109 - Confidentiality; Privilege
  (a) Except as provided by Sections 98.1046, 98.106, and 98.110, all information and materials obtained or compiled or reported by the department under this chapter...
• Texas Section 98.110 - Disclosure Among Certain Agencies
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may disclose information reported by health care facilities under Section 98.103 or 98.1045 to other programs within the...

SUBCHAPTER D ENFORCEMENT

• Texas Section 98.111 - Civil Action
  Published infection rates or preventable adverse events may not be used in a civil action to establish a standard of care applicable to a health...
• Texas Section 98.151 - Violations
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a general hospital that violates this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter is subject to the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016