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The Texas Advance Directives Act (1999), also known as the Texas Futile Care Law, describes certain provisions that are now Chapter 166 of the Texas Health and Safety Code. Controversy over these provisions mainly centers on Section 166.046, Subsection (e), 1 which allows a health care facility to discontinue life-sustaining treatment ten days ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton subpoenaed the medical records of trans kids from Seattle Children's Hospital and from QueerMed, a Georgia-based telehealth clinic. On April 22, 2024, Paxton's office announced a court settlement by which it would no longer seek to access transgender people's information from the Washington hospital, whose ...
v. t. e. Patient rights consist of enforceable duties that healthcare professionals and healthcare business persons owe to patients to provide them with certain services or benefits. [ 1] When such services or benefits become rights instead of simply privileges, then a patient can expect to receive them and can expect the support of people who ...
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
The relevant section of the Texas Health and Safety Code is a single sentence, reading, “A person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient.” [31] Her husband Eric, with the support of her family, successfully sued the hospital for continuing treatment. [33]
Website. www .tmc .edu. The Texas Medical Center ( TMC) is a 2.1-square-mile (5.4 km 2) [ 1] medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Over 60 medical institutions, largely concentrated in a triangular area between Brays Bayou ...
United States. Area served. Central Texas. Parent. Ascension. Website. seton.net. Seton Healthcare Family, also known as Seton Family of Hospitals, is a Roman Catholic -affiliated [ 1] hospital network in the Greater Austin area. It is a member of Ascension, a not-for-profit health organization located in St. Louis, Missouri.
Texas Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked, freestanding 973-bed, [ 1] acute care women's and children's hospital located in Houston, Texas. It is the primary pediatric teaching hospital affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine [ 2] and is located within the Texas Medical Center. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialty ...