Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 98.103. Reportable Infections

(a) A health care facility shall report to the department each health care-associated infection, including the causative pathogen if the infection is laboratory-confirmed, that occurs in the facility and that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires a facility participating in the Medicare program to report through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network, or its successor.

(a-1) A health care facility shall report each health care-associated infection to the department under this section regardless of the facility's participation in Medicare.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., ch. 512 (S.B. 384), § 2(2).

(c) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., ch. 512 (S.B. 384), § 2(2).

(d) The department shall ensure that the health care-associated infections a health care facility is required to report under this section have the meanings assigned by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(d-1) The executive commissioner by rule may designate the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network, or its successor, to receive reports of health care-associated infections from health care facilities on behalf of the department.  A health care facility must file a report required in accordance with a designation made under this subsection in accordance with the National Healthcare Safety Network's definitions, methods, requirements, and procedures.  A health care facility shall authorize the department to have access to facility-specific data contained in a report filed with the National Healthcare Safety Network in accordance with a designation made under this subsection.

(e) A report made under this section must specify whether the infection resulted in the death of the patient while hospitalized.