Tex. Health and Safety Code § 222.022
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 222.022, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 222.022. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this subchapter:
(1) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(2) "Health care facility" means a public or private hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, ambulatory surgical center, family planning clinic that performs ambulatory surgical procedures, rural or urban health initiative clinic, end stage renal disease facility, and inpatient rehabilitation facility. The term does not include the office of physicians or practitioners of the healing arts practicing individually or in groups or a chemical dependency treatment facility licensed by the Department of State Health Services under Chapter 464.
(3) "Inspection" includes a survey, inspection, investigation, or other procedure necessary for a state agency to carry out an obligation imposed by federal and state laws, rules, and regulations.
(1) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(2) "Health care facility" means a public or private hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, ambulatory surgical center, family planning clinic that performs ambulatory surgical procedures, rural or urban health initiative clinic, end stage renal disease facility, and inpatient rehabilitation facility. The term does not include the office of physicians or practitioners of the healing arts practicing individually or in groups or a chemical dependency treatment facility licensed by the Department of State Health Services under Chapter 464.
(3) "Inspection" includes a survey, inspection, investigation, or other procedure necessary for a state agency to carry out an obligation imposed by federal and state laws, rules, and regulations.
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