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Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 534.016. Screening and Continuing Care Services

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

(a) A community center shall provide screening services for:

(1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and

(2) a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.

(b) A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.

(c) Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.

(d) The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if:

(1) local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or

(2) the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.

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