Tex. Health & Safety Code § 142A.0001 · Chapter 142A. SUPPORTIVE PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES
DEFINITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter, "supportive palliative care" means physician-directed interdisciplinary patient- and family-centered care provided to a patient with a serious illness without regard to the patient's age or terminal prognosis that:
(1) may be provided concurrently with methods of treatment or therapies that seek to cure or minimize the effects of the patient's illness; and
(2) seeks to optimize the quality of life for a patient with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness and the patient's family through various methods, including methods that seek to:
(A) anticipate, prevent, and treat the patient's total suffering related to the patient's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual condition;
(B) address the physical, intellectual, emotional, cultural, social, and spiritual needs of the patient; and
(C) facilitate for the patient regarding treatment options, education, informed consent, and expression of desires.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 609 (S.B. 916), Sec. 1, eff. June 10, 2019.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.142A.htm
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