California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 7 - Other Services

• Section 1315.
  Dental services, as defined in the Dental Practice Act, may be provided patients in health facilities licensed under this chapter. Such services shall be provided...
• Section 1316.
  (a)  The rules of a health facility shall include provisions for use of the facility by, and staff privileges for, duly licensed podiatrists within the...
• Section 1316.5.
  (a) (1) Each health facility owned and operated by the state offering care or services within the scope of practice of a psychologist shall establish rules and...
• Section 1316.6.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the exercise of privileges in any health facility may be limited, restricted, or revoked for the violation of...
• Section 1317.
  (a) Emergency services and care shall be provided to any person requesting the services or care, or for whom services or care is requested, for any...
• Section 1317.1.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall control the construction of this article and Section 1371.4:(a) (1) “Emergency services and care” means medical screening, examination,...
• Section 1317.2.
  A person needing emergency services and care shall not be transferred from a hospital to another hospital for any nonmedical reason (such as the person’s...
• Section 1317.2a.
  (a)  A hospital which has a legal obligation, whether imposed by statute or by contract, to the extent of that contractual obligation, to any third-party...
• Section 1317.3.
  (a) As a condition of licensure, each hospital shall adopt, in consultation with the medical staff, policies and transfer protocols consistent with this article and regulations...
• Section 1317.4.
  (a)  All hospitals shall maintain records of each transfer made or received, including the “Memorandum of Transfer” described in subdivision (f) of Section 1317.2, for...
• Section 1317.4a.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (j) of Section 1317.1, a patient may be transferred for admission to a psychiatric unit within a general acute care hospital, as defined...
• Section 1317.5.
  (a)  All alleged violations of this article and the regulations adopted hereunder shall be investigated by the state department. The state department, with the agreement...
• Section 1317.6.
  (a)  Hospitals found by the state department to have committed or to be responsible for a violation of this article or the regulations adopted pursuant...
• Section 1317.7.
  This article does not preempt any county or any other governmental agency acting within its authority from regulating emergency care or patient transfers, including the...
• Section 1317.8.
  If any provision of this article is declared unlawful or unconstitutional in any judicial action, the remaining provisions of this chapter shall remain in effect.(Added...
• Section 1317.9a.
  (a)  This article shall not be construed as altering or repealing Section 2400 of the Business and Professions Code. (b)  Nothing in Sections 1317 et...
• Section 1317.10.a.
  Notwithstanding Sections 1317 and 1317.2, Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford shall be treated as a single licensed facility for...
• Section 1318.
  (a)  The director shall require as a condition precedent to the issuance, or renewal, of any license for a health facility, if the licensee handles...
• Section 1319.
  The rules of a health facility may include provisions that require every member of the medical staff to have professional liability insurance as a condition...
• Section 1320.
  A skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall not require patients to purchase drugs, or rent or purchase medical supplies or equipment, from any...
• Section 1321.
  No health facility shall advertise or represent in any way that it provides occupational therapy services unless such services are provided under the administrative control...
• Section 1322.
  A hospital which contracts with an insurer, nonprofit hospital service plan, or health care service plan shall not determine or condition medical staff membership or...
• Section 1323.
  (a)  A health facility, as defined by subdivisions (c) to (g), inclusive, of Section 1250, which has a significant beneficial interest in an ancillary health...
• Section 1323.1.
  (a) A general acute care hospital shall notify each patient scheduled for a service in a hospital-based outpatient clinic when that service is available in another...

Last modified: October 22, 2018