Tex.
Health & Safety Code Section 32.042
Duties of Executive Commissioner; Rules
(a)
The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt:(1)
minimum standards and objectives to implement voluntary perinatal health care systems; and(2)
policies for health promotion and education, risk assessment, access to care, and perinatal system structure, including the transfer and transportation of pregnant women and infants.(b)
The rules must:(1)
reflect all geographic areas of the state, considering time and distance;(2)
provide specific requirements for appropriate care of perinatal patients; and(3)
facilitate coordination among all perinatal service providers and health care facilities in the delivery area.(c)
The rules must include:(1)
risk reduction guidelines for preconceptional, prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and infant care, including guidelines for the transfer and transportation of perinatal patients;(2)
criteria for determining geographic boundaries of perinatal health care systems;(3)
minimum requirements of health promotion and education, risk assessment, access to care, and coordination of services that must be present in a perinatal health care system;(4)
minimum requirements for resources and equipment needed by a health care facility to treat perinatal patients;(5)
standards for the availability and qualifications of the health care personnel treating perinatal patients in a facility;(6)
requirements for data collection, including operation of the perinatal health care system and patient outcomes;(7)
requirements for periodic performance evaluation of the system and its components; and(8)
assurances that health care facilities will not refuse to accept the transfer of a perinatal patient solely because of the person’s inability to pay for services or because of the person’s age, sex, race, religion, or national origin.
Source:
Section 32.042 — Duties of Executive Commissioner; Rules, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.32.htm#32.042 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
