Texas Health and Safety Code 533.052 – Contracting With Certain Mental Health Service Providers and Facilities to Provide Services and Beds for Certain Persons
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Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 533.052
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
The department shall make every effort, through collaboration and contractual arrangements with local mental health authorities, to contract with and use a broad base of local community outpatient mental health service providers and inpatient mental health facilities, as appropriate, to make available a sufficient and appropriately located amount of outpatient mental health services and a sufficient and appropriately located number of beds in inpatient mental health facilities, as specified in the plan developed by the department under § 533.051, to ensure the appropriate and timely provision of mental health services to the two groups of patients described by § 533.051(a).