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215.018D Patients Awaiting Orders of Protective Custody

215.018D

Patients Awaiting Orders of Protective Custody: Legislation should be sought to allow for expeditious transport of involuntary psychiatric patients to appropriate facilities including state hospitals (Res. 107-I-00; reaffirmed CSA Rep. 1-A-10, deleted C-SPH Rep. 2 2020).

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October 29, 2020

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Texas Medicine 

The way the Texas Legislature conducts business during the 2021 session may look different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Texas Medical Association’s commitment to improving health care remains the same. Some of those goals are up against deep cuts to state agency budgets. At the same time, however, the pandemic has created opportunities for medicine to bend lawmakers’ ear on some of its longstanding goals, including advancing access to care, vaccines, health coverage, and telemedicine. Plus, physicians have proven ways to respond to patients’ COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. 

 

 

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