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Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 224.001. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

In this chapter:

(1) “Covered individual” means:

(A) an employee of the health care facility;

(B) an individual providing direct patient care under a contract with a health care facility; or

(C) an individual to whom a health care facility has granted privileges to provide direct patient care.

(2) “Health care facility” means:

(A) a facility licensed under Subtitle B  1, including a hospital as defined by Section 241.003; or

(B) a hospital maintained or operated by this state.

(3) “Regulatory authority” means a state agency that regulates a health care facility under this code.

(4) “Vaccine preventable diseases” means the diseases included in the most current recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1 V.T.C.A., Health & Safety Code § 241.001 et seq.
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