Sec. 32.044.  SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.  (a)  Each voluntary perinatal health care system must have:
(1)  a coordinating board responsible for ensuring, providing, or coordinating planning access to services, data collection, and provider education;
(2)  access to appropriate emergency medical services;
(3)  risk assessment, transport, and transfer protocols for perinatal patients;
(4)  one or more health care facilities categorized according to perinatal care capabilities using standards adopted by department rule; and
(5)  documentation of broad-based participation in planning by providers of perinatal services and community representatives throughout the defined geographic region.
(b)  This subchapter does not prohibit a health care facility from providing services that it is authorized to provide under a license issued to the facility by the department.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 124, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0094, eff. April 2, 2015.