Texas Health and Safety Code
§ 161.0052 — IMMUNIZATION OF ELDERLY PERSONS BY HOSPITALS, END STAGE RENAL DISEASE FACILITIES, AND PHYSICIANS' OFFICES
HS § 161.0052Title 2. HEALTH · Part H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS · Ch. 161. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS · Art. A. IMMUNIZATIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Elderly person" means a person who is 65 years of age or older.
(2)"End stage renal disease facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 251.001.
(3)"Hospital" has the meaning assigned by Section 241.003.
(b)The executive commissioner by rule shall require a hospital to inform each elderly person admitted to the hospital for a period of 24 hours or more that the pneumococcal and influenza vaccines are available. If the elderly person requests a vaccine, and if a physician, or an advanced nurse practitioner or physician assistant on behalf of a physician, determines that the vaccine is in the person's best interest, the hospital must make the vaccination available to the person before the person is discharged from the hospital.
(c)The executive commissioner by rule shall require an end stage renal disease facility to offer, to the extent possible as determined by the facility, the opportunity to receive the pneumococcal and influenza vaccines to each elderly person who receives ongoing care at the facility if a physician, or an advanced nurse practitioner or physician assistant on behalf of a physician, determines that the vaccine is in the person's best interest. If the facility decides it is not feasible to offer the vaccine, the facility must provide the person with information on other options for obtaining the vaccine.
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Legislative history
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0458, eff. April 2, 2015.