- (a) In counties with populations of more than 100,000, the department may assist hospital districts and county hospital systems in providing an adult diabetes education program. The program must be based on a curriculum developed by the Texas Diabetes Council.
(b) A hospital district or county hospital system that participates in the program shall:
- (1) make the adult diabetes education program available in English and Spanish using the curriculum developed by the Texas Diabetes Council; and
- (2) make the education program available in the county, including at each rural health clinic the district or system may have.
- (c) The Texas Diabetes Council shall develop for the adult diabetes education program a curriculum emphasizing life choices that enable a diabetic patient to control the disease and improve the patient's standard of living.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 217 (H.B. 123), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.