Title HS, Health and Safety Code

Sec. 98.1045. REPORTING OF PREVENTABLE ADVERSE EVENTS. (a) Each health care facility shall report to the department the occurrence of any of the following preventable adverse events involving the facility's patient: (1) a health care-associated adverse condition or event for whic…

Sec. 98.1046. PUBLIC REPORTING OF CERTAIN POTENTIALLY PREVENTABLE EVENTS FOR HOSPITALS. (a) The department, using data submitted under Chapter 108, shall publicly report for hospitals in this state risk-adjusted outcome rates for those potentially preventable complications and po…

Sec. 98.1047. STUDIES ON LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY REPORTING OF ADVERSE HEALTH CONDITIONS. (a) The department shall study which adverse health conditions commonly occur in long-term care facilities and, of those health conditions, which are potentially preventable. (b) The departme…

Sec. 98.106. DEPARTMENTAL SUMMARY. (a) The department shall compile and make available to the public a summary, by health care facility, of: (1) the infections reported by facilities under Section 98.103, including whether the infections resulted in the death of the patient while…

Sec. 98.1065. STUDY OF INCENTIVES AND RECOGNITION FOR HEALTH CARE QUALITY. The department shall conduct a study on developing a recognition program to recognize exemplary health care facilities for superior quality of health care and make recommendations based on that study. Adde…

Sec. 98.107. EDUCATION AND TRAINING REGARDING REPORTING SYSTEM. The department shall provide education and training for health care facility staff regarding this chapter. The training must be reasonable in scope and focus primarily on: (1) the implementation and management of a f…

Sec. 98.108. FREQUENCY OF REPORTING. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish the frequency of reporting by health care facilities required under Sections 98.103 and 98.1045. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), facilities may not be required to report more fre…

Sec. 98.109. CONFIDENTIALITY; PRIVILEGE. (a) Except as provided by Sections 98.1046, 98.106, and 98.110, all information and materials obtained or compiled or reported by the department under this chapter or compiled or reported by a health care facility under this chapter, and a…

Sec. 98.110. DISCLOSURE AMONG CERTAIN AGENCIES. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may disclose information reported by health care facilities under Section 98.103 or 98.1045 to other programs within the department, to the commission, to other health and human serv…

Sec. 98.111. CIVIL ACTION. Published infection rates or preventable adverse events may not be used in a civil action to establish a standard of care applicable to a health care facility. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 359 (S.B. 288), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007. Amended …

Sec. 98.151. VIOLATIONS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a general hospital that violates this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter is subject to the enforcement provisions of Subchapter C, Chapter 241, and rules adopted and enforced under that subchapter as if …