SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.
Tex. HEALTH & SAFETY Code § 773.114.
in effect(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.