Texas Health and Safety Code 533.031 – Definitions
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Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 533.031
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this subchapter:
(1) “Elderly resident” means a person 65 years of age or older residing in a department facility.
(2) “Extended care unit” means a residential unit in a department facility that contains patients with chronic mental illness who require long-term care, maintenance, limited programming, and constant supervision.
(3) “Transitional living unit” means a residential unit that is designed for the primary purpose of facilitating the return of hard-to-place psychiatric patients with chronic mental illness from acute care units to the community through an array of services appropriate for those patients.