Texas Health and Safety Code

§ 32.074 — QUALIFICATIONS FOR DESIGNATION

HS § 32.074Title 2. HEALTH · Part B. HEALTH PROGRAMS · Ch. 32. MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH IMPROVEMENT · Art. D. CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

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The rules adopted under Section 32.071(b) must ensure that a health care entity or program that receives a center of excellence designation under this subchapter:

(1)provides or is affiliated with a hospital facility that provides advanced maternal and neonatal care in accordance with its level of care designation received under Section 241.182;

(2)implements and maintains a multidisciplinary health care team, including maternal fetal medicine specialists, pediatric and surgical specialists, neonatologists, nurses with specialized maternal and neonatal training, and other ancillary and support staff as appropriate to provide maternal, fetal, and neonatal services;

(3)establishes minimum criteria for medical staff, nursing staff, and ancillary and support personnel;

(4)measures short-term and long-term patient diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes; and

(5)provides to the department annual reports containing aggregate data on short-term and long-term diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes as requested or required by the department and makes those reports available to the public.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1060 (H.B. 2131), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.