Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 248.002. Definitions

(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of state health services.

(2) “Department” means the Department of State Health Services.

(2-a) “Executive commissioner” means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.

(3) “Medical care” means care that is:

(4) “Nursing care” means services provided by nursing personnel as prescribed by a physician, including services to:

(5) “Person” means an individual, organization, establishment, or association of any kind.

(6) “Resident” means an individual accepted for care in a special care facility.

(7) “Services” means the provision of medical or nursing care, assistance, or treatment by special care facility personnel, volunteers, or other qualified individuals, agencies, or staff of an organization or other entity to meet a resident's medical, nursing, social, spiritual, and emotional needs.

(8) “Special care facility” means an institution or establishment that provides a continuum of nursing or medical care or services primarily to persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or other terminal illnesses.  The term includes a special residential care facility.

(9) “Bereavement services” has the meaning assigned by Section 142.001.

(10) “Palliative care” has the meaning assigned by Section 142.001.

(11) “Support services” has the meaning assigned by Section 142.001.

(12) “Residential AIDS hospice” means a facility licensed and designated as a residential AIDS hospice under this chapter.

(13) “Residential AIDS hospice care” means hospice services provided in a residential AIDS hospice.

(14) “AIDS” means acquired immune deficiency syndrome.