Sec. 771.151. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:

(1) "Center" means the area health education center at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center that meets the requirements of 42 U.S.C. Section 294a and has received federal funding as an area health education center.

(2) "Emergency medical services" means services used to respond to an individual's perceived need for immediate medical care and to prevent death or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury.

(3) "Emergency medical services provider" means a person who uses or maintains emergency medical services vehicles, medical equipment, and emergency medical services personnel to provide emergency medical services.

(4) "Emergency prehospital care" means care provided to the sick or injured before or during transportation to a medical facility, and includes any necessary stabilization of the sick or injured in connection with that transportation.

(5) "Regional trauma resource center" means a trauma facility that the center selects to participate in the project.

(6) "Rural area" means:

(A) a county with a population of 50,000 or less; or

(B) a large, isolated, and sparsely populated area of a county with a population of more than 50,000.

(7) "Telemedicine medical service" has the meaning assigned by Section 111.001, Occupations Code.

(8) "Trauma facility" means a health care facility that is capable of comprehensive treatment of seriously injured persons and is a part of an emergency medical services and trauma care system.

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 457 (H.B. 479), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2015.

Amended by:

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 205 (S.B. 1107), Sec. 11, eff. May 27, 2017.