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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 321.001: DEFINITIONS.

In this chapter:
(1) "Comprehensive medical rehabilitation" means the provision of rehabilitation services that are designed to improve or minimize a person's physical or cognitive disabilities, maximize a person's functional ability, or restore a person's lost functional capacity through close coordination of services, communication, interaction, and integration among several professions that share the responsibility to achieve team treatment goals for the person.
(1-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(2) "Hospital" has the meaning assigned by Section 241.003.
(3) "License" means a state agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, or other form of permission required by state law.
(4) "Mental health facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 571.003.
(5) "State health care regulatory agency" means a state agency that licenses a health care professional.
(6) "Treatment facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 464.001.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0854, eff. April 2, 2015.

Where this section sits in the code

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES
SUBTITLE G. PROVISION OF SERVICES IN CERTAIN FACILITIES
CHAPTER 321. PROVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, AND REHABILITATION SERVICES

In this chapter:

(1) "Comprehensive medical rehabilitation" means the provision of rehabilitation services that are designed to improve or minimize a person's physical or cognitive disabilities, maximize a person's functional ability, or restore a person's lost functional capacity through close coordination of services, communication, interaction, and integration among several professions that share the responsibility to achieve team treatment goals for the person.

(1-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.

(2) "Hospital" has the meaning assigned by Section 241.003.

(3) "License" means a state agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, or other form of permission required by state law.

(4) "Mental health facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 571.003.

(5) "State health care regulatory agency" means a state agency that licenses a health care professional.

(6) "Treatment facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 464.001.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Amended by:

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0854, eff. April 2, 2015.

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