(a) Each emergency medical services and trauma care system must have:
- (1) local or regional medical control for all field care and transportation, consistent with geographic and current communications capability;
- (2) triage, transport, and transfer protocols; and
- (3) one or more hospitals categorized according to trauma care capabilities using standards adopted by department rule.
- (b) This subchapter does not prohibit a health care facility from providing services that it is authorized to provide under a license issued to the facility by the department.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 267, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Redesignated from Health & Safety Code Sec. 773.084 by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 605, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1557, eff. April 2, 2015.