What is an Independent ER?
The Texas Health and Human Services define independent emergency medical (also known as Freestanding ER or stand-alone ER) care facilities as “A facility that is structurally separate and distinct from a hospital and which receives an individual and provides emergency care”.
This simply means that for us to operate as a stand alone emergency room, we must be licensed by the state of Texas and comply with a strict set of rules and standards of care, just as hospital emergency rooms. In other words, we are held to the same standards of patient care as a hospital run emergency department.
