California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - General

• Section 1250.
  As used in this chapter, “health facility” means a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and...
• Section 1250.02.
  Article 9 (commencing with Section 70901) of Chapter 1 of Division 5 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, as adopted to implement...
• Section 1250.03.
  A rural general acute care hospital that does not provide surgical and anesthesia services shall maintain written transfer agreements with one or more general acute...
• Section 1250.05.
  (a)  All general acute care hospitals licensed under this chapter shall maintain a medical records system, based upon current standards for medical record retrieval and...
• Section 1250.06.
  A licensed general acute care hospital, as defined pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250, or an acute psychiatric hospital, as defined pursuant to subdivision...
• Section 1250.1.
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations that define all of the following bed classifications for health facilities:(1) General acute care.(2) Skilled nursing.(3) Intermediate care-developmental disabilities.(4) Intermediate care—other.(5) Acute psychiatric.(6) Specialized care, with...
• Section 1250.2.
  (a) (1) As defined in Section 1250, “health facility” includes a “psychiatric health facility,” defined to mean a health facility, licensed by the State Department of Health...
• Section 1250.3.
  (a) As defined in Section 1250, “health facility” includes the following type: “Chemical dependency recovery hospital” means a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient care for...
• Section 1250.4.
  (a)  As used in this section: (1)  “Department” means the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority. (2)  “Communicable, contagious, or infectious...
• Section 1250.5.
  “Council” means the Advisory Health Council.(Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1202.)
• Section 1250.6.
  Any requirement placed upon, or reference to, a corporation in this chapter, shall also apply to a limited liability company.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 685,...
• Section 1250.7.
  (a)  (1)  With respect to each hospital designated by the department as a critical access hospital, and certified as such by the Secretary of the...
• Section 1250.8.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and...
• Section 1250.11.
  The State Department of Public Health shall develop written guidelines and regulations as necessary to minimize the risk of transmission of blood-borne infectious diseases from...
• Section 1251.
  “License” means a basic permit to operate a health facility with an authorized number and classification of beds. A license shall not be transferable.(Amended by...
• Section 1251.3.
  A health facility licensed as a general acute care hospital, providing alcohol recovery services, may convert its licensure category to an acute psychiatric hospital and...
• Section 1251.4.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, upon application of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the department shall change the license category of a general acute care...
• Section 1251.5.
  A “special permit” is a permit issued in addition to a license, authorizing a health facility to offer one or more of the special services...
• Section 1252.
  (a) “Special service” means a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type or...
• Section 1253.
  (a)  No person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state shall operate, establish, manage, conduct,...
• Section 1253.1.
  (a)  Any skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that on the effective date of this section is providing care for the developmentally disabled may...
• Section 1253.5.
  (a) The State Department of Public Health, upon issuance and renewal of a license for a general acute care hospital as defined in subdivision (a) of...
• Section 1253.6.
  (a) This section shall govern applications by general acute care hospitals for supplemental services approval for outpatient clinic services. (b) Upon receipt of an initial application by...
• Section 1253.7.
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, “observation services” means outpatient services provided by a general acute care hospital and that have been ordered by a provider,...
• Section 1254.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), the state department shall inspect and license health facilities. The state department shall license health facilities to provide their...
• Section 1254.1.
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall license psychiatric health facilities to provide their basic services specified in Section 1250.(b) Any reference in any statute...
• Section 1254.2.
  (a)  The state department, in addition to the licensing duties imposed by Section 1254, shall license chemical dependency recovery hospitals to provide the basic services...
• Section 1254.4.
  (a) A general acute care hospital shall adopt a policy for providing family or next of kin with a reasonably brief period of accommodation, as described...
• Section 1254.5.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the disease of eating disorders is not simply medical or psychiatric, but involves biological, sociological, psychological, family, medical, and...
• Section 1254.6.
  (a)  A hospital shall provide, free of charge, information and instructional materials regarding sudden infant death syndrome, as described in Section 1596.847, explaining the medical...
• Section 1254.7.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that pain be assessed and treated promptly, effectively, and for as long as pain persists.(b) A health facility licensed...
• Section 1255.
  (a) In addition to the basic services offered under the license, a general acute care hospital may be approved in accordance with subdivision (c) of Section...
• Section 1255.1.
  (a)  Any hospital that provides emergency medical services under Section 1255 shall, as soon as possible, but not later than 90 days prior to a...
• Section 1255.2.
  A health facility implementing a downgrade or change shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the community served by its facility is informed of the...
• Section 1255.25.
  (a) (1) Not less than 30 days prior to closing a health facility, as defined in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 1250, or eliminating a supplemental...
• Section 1255.3.
  On or before June 30, 1999, with the state department as the lead agency, the state department and the Emergency Medical Services Authority, in consultation...
• Section 1255.5.
  For purposes of Section 1255, the following definitions apply:(a)  “Cardiac catheterization” includes an intravascular insertion of a catheter into the heart for the primary definition...
• Section 1255.6.
  During cardiovascular surgery, a perfusionist, as defined by Chapter 5.67 (commencing with Section 2590) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, shall operate...
• Section 1255.7.
  (a) (1) For purposes of this section, “safe-surrender site” means either of the following:(A) A location designated by the board of supervisors of a county or by a...
• Section 1255.8.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Colonized” means that a pathogen is present on the patient’s body, but is not...
• Section 1256.
  (a)  The use of the name or title “hospital” by any person or persons to identify or represent a facility for the diagnosis, care, and...
• Section 1256.01.
  (a) The Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Program is hereby established in the department. The purpose of the program is to allow the department to certify...
• Section 1256.1.
  A general acute care hospital shall not hold itself out directly or indirectly by any sign, brochure, or advertisement as providing any service or services...
• Section 1256.2.
  (a)  (1)  No general acute care hospital may promulgate policies or implement practices that determine differing standards of obstetrical care based upon a patient’s source...
• Section 1257.
  The state department may delegate to local health departments the authority to verify compliance with the licensing and approval provisions of this chapter, to provide...
• Section 1257.5.
  (a) All registered nurses, certified nurse assistants, licensed vocational nurses, and physicians working in skilled nursing facilities, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1250, or...
• Section 1257.7.
  (a) After July 1, 2010, all hospitals licensed pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), and (f) of Section 1250 shall conduct, not less than annually, a security...
• Section 1257.8.
  (a)  All hospital employees regularly assigned to the emergency department shall receive, by July 1, 1995, and thereafter, on a continuing basis as provided for...
• Section 1257.9.
  (a) (1) The department shall recommend training for general acute care hospitals, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, and special hospitals, as defined in subdivision...
• Section 1258.
  No health facility which permits sterilization operations for contraceptive purposes to be performed therein, nor the medical staff of such health facility, shall require the...
• Section 1259.
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that California is becoming a land of people whose languages and cultures give the state a global quality. The Legislature...
• Section 1259.5.
  By January 1, 1995, each general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, special hospital, psychiatric health facility, and chemical dependency recovery hospital shall establish written...
• Section 1260.
  (a)  Except as provided in subdivision (b), any member of the board of directors of a nonprofit corporation that is subject to Section 5914 of...
• Section 1260.1.
  (a)  Except as provided in subdivision (b), any member of the board of directors of a nonprofit corporation that is subject to Section 5920 of...
• Section 1261.
  (a)  A health facility shall allow a patient’s domestic partner, the children of the patient’s domestic partner, and the domestic partner of the patient’s parent...
• Section 1261.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for a patient aged 50 years or older, a registered nurse or licensed pharmacist may administer in a skilled...
• Section 1261.5.
  (a) The number of oral dosage form or suppository form drugs provided by a pharmacy to a health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (c) or (d),...
• Section 1261.6.
  (a) (1) For purposes of this section and Section 1261.5, an “automated drug delivery system” means a mechanical system that performs operations or activities, other than compounding...
• Section 1262.
  (a)  When a mental health patient is being discharged from one of the facilities specified in subdivision (c), the patient and the patient’s conservator, guardian,...
• Section 1262.4.
  (a) No hospital, as defined in subdivisions (a), (b), and (f) of Section 1250, may cause the transfer of homeless patients from one county to another...
• Section 1262.5.
  (a) Each hospital shall have a written discharge planning policy and process.(b) The policy required by subdivision (a) shall require that appropriate arrangements for posthospital care, including,...
• Section 1262.6.
  (a)  Each hospital shall provide each patient, upon admission or as soon thereafter as reasonably practical, written information regarding the patient’s right to the following:...
• Section 1262.7.
  (a)  A skilled nursing facility, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1250, shall admit a patient only upon a physician’s order and only if...
• Section 1262.8.
  (a) A noncontracting hospital shall not bill a patient who is an enrollee of a health care service plan for poststabilization care, except for applicable copayments,...
• Section 1263.
  (a)  This section shall be known and may be cited as the Dementia Training Standards Act of 2001. (b)  (1)  Any certified nurse assistant employed...
• Section 1264.
  (a) Any health facility licensed under Section 1250 that provides prenatal screening ultrasound to detect congenital heart defects shall require that the ultrasound be performed by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018