1. (a) The district has the responsibility to establish a hospital or hospital system within its boundaries to provide hospital and medical care to the district's residents.

2. (b) The hospital system may include:

   1. (1) facilities for domiciliary care of the sick, injured, or geriatric;
   2. (2) facilities for outpatient clinics;
   3. (3) dispensaries;
   4. (4) convalescent home facilities;
   5. (5) necessary nurses' domiciliaries and training centers;
   6. (6) blood banks;
   7. (7) community mental health centers;
   8. (8) research centers or laboratories; and
   9. (9) any other facilities the board considers necessary for hospital care.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.02, eff. April 1, 2009.