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• California Health And Safety Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Health and Safety Code.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 4
  Any action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and any right accrued, is not affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 5
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 7
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 9
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. Subdivision means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 14
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 15
  Unless expressly otherwise provided, any notice required to be given to any person by any provision of this code may be given by mailing notice,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 16
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 17
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 18
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 19
  "Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 20
  "State department" or "department" means State Department of Health Services. Commencing July 1, 2007, any reference to the former State Department of Health Services regarding...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 21
  "Director" means "State Director of Health Services." Commencing July 1, 2007, any reference to the former State Director of Health Services regarding a function vested...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 22
  "Board" or "State Board of Public Health" means "State Department of Health Services," with respect to regulatory functions heretofore performed by the State Board of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 23
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 24
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 25
  Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such rules and regulations...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 27
  For purposes of this code: (a) "Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act" means Sections 104730, 104830 to 104860, inclusive, 113150, 113155, Part 1 (commencing with...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 28
  For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 130
  (a) In order to carry out the intention of the People of California that, excepting emergency medical care as required by federal law, only citizens...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 135
  The Office of Women's Health is hereby established within the State Department of Health Care Services. For purposes of this chapter, "office" means the Office...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 136
  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency shall establish an interagency task force on women's health composed of representatives of the State Department of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 137
  (a) The office shall develop a coordinated state strategy for addressing the health related needs of women. (b) The approved programmatic costs of the office...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 138
  The office may do any of the following on behalf of the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public Health...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 138.4
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public Health shall place priority on providing information to consumers, patients, and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 138.6
  (a) The department shall include in any literature that it produces regarding breast cancer information that shall include, but not be limited to, all of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 150
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The health status of California's racial and ethnic communities is poor relative to the health...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 151
  (a) The Office of Multicultural Health is hereby established within the State Department of Public Health. The approved programmatic costs of the Office of Multicultural...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 152
  (a) The office shall do all of the following on behalf of the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416
  The Director of Developmental Services may be appointed as either guardian or conservator of the person and estate, or person or estate, of any developmentally...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.1
  Unless exceptions are expressly made in this article, the provisions of Division 4 (commencing with Section 1400) of the Probate Code shall apply to guardianship...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.5
  The director may be nominated by any one of the following to act as guardian or conservator for any developmentally disabled person; (1) who is...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.6
  In every case in which he has agreed to do so, the director may petition for his appointment to act as conservator or guardian of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.7
  If the alleged developmentally disabled person is within the state and is able to attend, he shall be present at the hearing. If he is...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.8
  In addition to the requirements of Division 4 (commencing with Section 1400) of the Probate Code, the court shall be provided by the regional center...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.9
  The court may appoint the Director of Developmental Services as guardian or conservator of the person and estate or person or estate of a minor...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.95
  Prior to the appointment of the Director of Developmental Services as guardian or conservator of the person or estate of a minor or adult developmentally...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.10
  No appointment of both the Director of Developmental Services and a private guardian or conservator shall be made for the same person and estate, or...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.11
  No costs or fees shall be charged or received by the county clerk for the filing of any conservatorship or guardianship petition as provided in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.12
  The Director of Developmental Services shall file an official bond in no event less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), which bond shall inure to the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.13
  The appointment by the court of the Director of Developmental Services as conservator or guardian shall be by the title of his office. The authority...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.14
  The Director of Developmental Services shall: (a) Consult with developmentally disabled persons and their families with respect to the services the director offers. (b) Act...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.15
  The Director of Developmental Services, when acting as adviser, may provide advice and guidance to the developmentally disabled person without prior appointment by a court....
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.16
  The Director of Developmental Services shall have the same powers and duties as those established for guardians and conservators in Division 4 (commencing with Section...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.17
  It is the intent of this article that the director when acting as guardian or conservator of the person of a developmentally disabled person through...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.18
  The director shall provide for at least an annual review in writing of the physical, mental, and social condition of each developmentally disabled person for...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.19
  The services to be rendered by the director as adviser or as guardian or conservator of the person shall be performed through the regional centers...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.20
  The director shall receive such reasonable fees for his services as guardian or conservator of the estate as the court allows and such fees shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 416.23
  This article does not authorize the care, treatment, or supervision or any control over any developmentally disabled person without the written consent of his parent...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 425
  The State Department of Health Services shall submit to the State Air Resources Board recommendations for ambient air quality standards reflecting the relationship between the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 429.997
  Notwithstanding any provision of state law, and unless prohibited by federal law, a county may eliminate or consolidate any health advisory boards that are required...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.900
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Health Research Fairness Act.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.901
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation's major source of funding for medical research...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.902
  (a) On or before June 30, 1992, state agencies shall adopt, and it is the intent of the Legislature that the Regents of the University...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.903
  State agencies shall, and it is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California: (a) Provide special opportunities for funding research projects devoted...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.904
  (a) State agencies and the University of California shall report, consistent with available data, on the extent to which state funds administered by those agencies...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.905
  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage research on the effectiveness of RU-486 (mifepristone) in treating breast and ovarian cancer, meningioma, endometriosis, Cushing's...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 439.906
  For purposes of this part, "state agency" has the same meaning as defined in Section 11000 of the Government Code.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 440.10
  "Health facility," as used in this chapter, means any general acute care hospital required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250)...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 440.20
  Within seven days after completion of the patient's itemized bill, every health facility shall provide to the primary attending health care practitioner a copy, upon...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 440.30
  The primary attending health care practitioner's written request to the health facility shall specify the records to be copied pursuant to Section 440.20 and shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 440.40
  The primary attending health care practitioner shall obtain prior written consent from each patient for whom a billing is requested, authorizing the release of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 440.50
  No information, other than the itemized billing set forth in Section 440.20, that is prohibited from being released by any other provision of law shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 444.20
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The health care delivery system continues to undergo rapid and dramatic change. Health care services...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 444.21
  (a) All communications between a representative of the program described in subdivision (c) of Section 444.20 and a subscriber or enrollee, or agent of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 444.22
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the Health Rights Hotline, serving the greater Sacramento area, and the Health Consumer Alliance (HCA) programs serving the Counties of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 444.23
  (a) Nothing in this part shall be construed to limit the authority and ability of the California Department of Aging or its contractors, or the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 444.24
  This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 445
  No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, or agent or employee thereof, shall for profit refer or recommend a person to a physician, hospital, health-related...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 851
  Any board of supervisors may adopt such rules and regulations with regard to keeping and storing of every description of gunpowder, hercules powder, giant powder,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 475
  (a) (1) The State Department of Health Services shall establish a permanent Office of Binational Border Health to facilitate cooperation between health officials and health...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 900
  There is hereby created the Children's Environmental Health Center within the Environmental Protection Agency. The primary purposes of the center shall include all of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 901
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Center" means the Children's Environmental Health Center established pursuant to Section 900. (2) "Office" means the Office of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Outside of California's four major metropolitan areas, the majority of the state is rural. In...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.1
  (a) The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency shall establish an Office of Rural Health, or an alternative organizational structure, in one of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.2
  (a) The Health and Welfare Agency shall establish an interdepartmental Task Force on Rural Health to coordinate rural health policy development and program operations and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.3
  (a) (1) The Rural Health Policy Council shall develop and administer a competitive grants program for projects located in rural areas of California. (2) The...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.5
  (a) The Rural Health Policy Office within the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development serving as staff to the Rural Health Policy Council shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.6
  (a) (1) In order to provide improved delivery of services to the families of agricultural workers, the State Department of Health Services shall review and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.10
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Children' s Hospital Bond Act of 2004.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.11
  As used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Authority" means the California Health Facilities Financing Authority established pursuant to Section...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.20
  The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the Children's Hospital Fund, which is hereby created.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.21
  The purpose of the Children's Hospital Program is to improve the health and welfare of California's critically ill children, by providing a stable and ready...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.22
  The authority is authorized to award grants to any children's hospital for purposes of funding projects, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 1179.11.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.23
  (a) Twenty percent of the total funds available for grants pursuant to this part shall be awarded to children's hospitals as defined in paragraph (1)...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.24
  (a) The authority shall develop a written application for the awarding of grants under this part within 90 days of the adoption of this act....
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.25
  The Bureau of State Audits may conduct periodic audits to ensure that bond proceeds are awarded in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.30
  Bonds in the total amount of seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds, may be issued and sold...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.31
  The bonds authorized by this part shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.32
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.33
  The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this part in order to carry out...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.34
  There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.35
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated continuously from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.36
  For the purposes of carrying out this part, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount not to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.37
  All money deposited in the fund that is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.38
  Pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the cost of bond...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.39
  The authority may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account in accordance with Section 16312 of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.40
  The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.41
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law, if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this part that...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.42
  The people hereby find and declare that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this part are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1179.43
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the provisions of this part are severable. If any provision of this part or its application is held...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180
  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency, in accordance with their mission, shall provide the leadership and coordination necessary to reduce the use of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180.1
  For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply: (a) "Behavioral restraint" means "mechanical restraint" or "physical restraint" as defined in this section, used as...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180.2
  (a) This section shall apply to the state hospitals operated by the State Department of Mental Health and facilities operated by the State Department of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180.3
  (a) This section shall apply to psychiatric units of general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric health facilities, crisis stabilization units, community treatment facilities,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180.4
  (a) A facility described in subdivision (a) of Section 1180.2 or subdivision (a) of Section 1180.3 shall conduct an initial assessment of each person prior...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180.5
  (a) A facility described in subdivision (a) of Section 1180.2 or subdivision (a) of Section 1180.3 shall conduct a clinical and quality review for each...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1180.6
  The State Department of Health Services, the State Department of Mental Health, the State Department of Social Services, and the State Department of Developmental Services...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1200
  As used in this chapter, "clinic" means an organized outpatient health facility which provides direct medical, surgical, dental, optometric, or podiatric advice, services, or treatment...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1200.1
  (a) As used in this chapter, "clinic" also means an organized outpatient health facility which, pursuant to Section 1204.1, provides direct psychological advice, services, or...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1201
  "License" means a basic permit to operate a clinic. A license may only be granted to a clinic of a type enumerated in Section 1204...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1201.5
  "Nonprofit speech and hearing center" means a nonprofit agency which provides an integrated program of speech pathology and audiology services in an outpatient setting designed...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1202
  "Special permit" means a permit issued in addition to a license authorizing the clinic to offer one or more special services, as defined in Section...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1203
  "Special service" means a functional division, department, or unit of a clinic, or a clinic that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1204
  Clinics eligible for licensure pursuant to this chapter are primary care clinics and specialty clinics. (a) (1) Only the following defined classes of primary care...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1204.1
  In addition to the primary care clinics and specialty clinics specified in Section 1204, clinics eligible for licensure pursuant to this chapter include psychology clinics....
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1204.3
  (a) An alternative birth center that is licensed as an alternative birth center specialty clinic pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1204.4
  The State Department of Health Services shall provide information to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority with respect to primary care clinic grant applicants for...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1204.5
  Primary care clinics may submit verification of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) certification to the Licensing and Certification Division within the State...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1205
  Except as provided in Section 1206, no person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or public agency shall operate, establish, manage, conduct or maintain a clinic in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1205.5
  A clinic that has been verified by the Licensing and Certification Division of the State Department of Health Services and the Office of Statewide Health...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1206
  This chapter does not apply to the following: (a) Except with respect to the option provided with regard to surgical clinics in paragraph (1) of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1206.1
  The provisions of this chapter do not require licensure of any place or establishment owned or leased and operated as a clinic or office by...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1207
  The state department shall inspect and license clinics, and shall inspect and approve clinics to offer special services.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1208
  The state department may provide consulting services upon request to any clinic to assist in the identification or correction of deficiencies or the upgrading of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1209
  This chapter does not authorize any person other than a licensed practitioner of a healing art, or any corporation except charitable or professional corporations as...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1212
  (a) Any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for a clinic or a special permit for special services under the provisions of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1213
  Any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation or other legal entity desiring a license for a clinic shall be exempt from the requirements of Chapter 1...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1214
  Each application under this chapter for an initial license, renewal license, license upon change of ownership, or special permit shall be accompanied by a Licensing...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1214.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1214, each application for a surgical clinic or a chronic dialysis clinic under this chapter for an initial license, renewal...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1214.5
  Each application under this chapter for an initial license, renewal license, license upon change of ownership, or special permit for a psychology clinic shall be...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1215
  Each new license issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire 12 months from the date of its issuance, and each special permit shall expire on...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1216
  (a) Every clinic holding a license shall, on or before the 15th day of February each year, file with the Office of Statewide Health Planning...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1217
  (a) An applicant for a license to operate a primary care clinic, as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1204 that meets all requirements for...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1218
  Upon the filing of an application for a license or for a special permit, or for renewal of a license or special permit, the state...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1218.1
  (a) A primary care clinic that has held a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license for at least the immediately preceding five years, with no demonstrated...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1218.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, two or more primary care clinics that are operated by a single nonprofit corporation shall be entitled to consolidate...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1219
  (a) If a clinic or an applicant for a license has not been previously licensed, the state department may only issue a provisional license to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1219.1
  (a) The state department may issue a provisional license to a clinic if: (1) The clinic and the applicant for licensure substantially meet the standards...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1220
  Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license or special permit or a renewal thereof, the state department shall notify the applicant in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Centralized applications unit" means the centralized applications unit in the Licensing and Certification Division...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.05
  Commencing July 1, 2002, all new applications for licenses for clinics shall be reviewed by the centralized applications unit.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.09
  Commencing January 1, 2002, the centralized applications unit shall work with organizations that are among and advocate on behalf of, clinics to streamline application forms...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.11
  Commencing January 1, 2002, a telephone number shall be provided for applicants to verify receipt of their application by the Licensing and Certification Division.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.13
  All new applications submitted to the centralized applications unit shall be reviewed within two weeks for completeness. The centralized applications unit shall resolve minor issues...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.15
  (a) Commencing January 1, 2002, the Licensing and Certification Division shall designate at least one surveyor in each of the four regions to specialize in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.17
  The Licensing and Certification Program training unit shall work with organizations that are among and advocate on behalf of clinics and other stakeholders to develop...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1221.19
  The centralized applications unit and regional offices shall be routinely reviewed by the department beginning January 31, 2003, to determine if applications for clinic licenses...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1222
  The department shall, on or before July 1, 2005, implement a process that allows an applicant for licensure as a primary care clinic, as defined...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1225
  The state department shall adopt, and may from time to time amend or repeal, in accordance with Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371) of Part...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1226
  (a) The regulations shall prescribe the kinds of services which may be provided by clinics in each category of licensure and shall prescribe minimum standards...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1226.1
  (a) A primary care clinic shall comply with the following requirements regarding health examinations and other public health protections for individuals working in a primary...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1226.2
  The Community Clinics Advisory Committee provided for in subdivision (b) of Section 1226 shall meet on an ad hoc basis and shall be comprised of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1226.3
  A primary care clinic may establish compliance with the minimum construction standards of adequacy and safety for the physical plant described in subdivision (b) of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1226.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish seismic safety standards for facilities licensed as surgical clinics pursuant to this chapter, and for...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1227
  Any duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the state department may upon presentation of proper identification, enter and inspect any building or premises at...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1228
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), every clinic for which a license or special permit has been issued shall be periodically inspected. The frequency...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1229
  The state department shall notify any clinic of all deficiencies in its compliance with the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1229.1
  No notification of deficiency, civil or criminal penalty, fine, sanction, or denial, suspension, or revocation of licensure, may be imposed against a primary care clinic,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1230
  Reports on the results of each inspection shall be kept on file in the state department along with the plan of correction and clinic comments....
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1231
  (a) All clinics shall maintain compliance with the licensing requirements. These requirements shall not, however, prohibit the use of alternate concepts, methods, procedures, techniques, space,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1231.5
  The department may grant to a PACE program, as defined in Chapter 8.75 (commencing with Section 14590) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1232
  No clinic which permits sterilization operations for contraceptive purposes to be performed therein, nor the medical staff of such clinic, shall require the individual upon...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1233
  A surgical clinic may restrict use of its facilities to members of the medical staff of the surgical clinic and other physicians and surgeons approved...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1233.5
  By June 30, 1995, a licensed clinic board of directors and its medical director shall establish and adopt written policies and procedures to screen patients...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1234
  (a) Smoking shall not be permitted in patient areas of a clinic except those rooms designated for occupancy exclusively by smokers. (b) Clearly legible signs...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1235
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or who willfully or repeatedly violates any...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1236
  The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of Section 1205 in the superior court in and for the county...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1237
  Any action brought by the director against a clinic shall not abate by reason of a sale or other transfer of ownership of the facility...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1238
  The district attorney of every county shall, upon application by the state department or its authorized representative, institute and conduct the prosecution of any action...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1240
  The state department may suspend or revoke any license or special permit issued under the provisions of this chapter upon any of the following grounds...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1241
  Proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of licenses or special permits under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1242
  The director may temporarily suspend any license issued to a specialty clinic or special permit prior to any hearing, when in his opinion such action...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1243
  The withdrawal of an application for a license or a special permit after it has been filed with the state department, shall not, unless the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1244
  Any license or special permit revoked pursuant to this chapter may be reinstated pursuant to the provisions of Section 11522 of the Government Code.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1245
  Any licensee or holder of a special permit may, with the approval of the state department, surrender his license or special permit for suspension by...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Division" means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. (b) "Division...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.1
  No association, corporation, firm, partnership, or person shall operate, manage, conduct, or maintain an outpatient setting in this state, unless the setting is one of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.15
  (a) The division shall adopt standards for accreditation and, in approving accreditation agencies to perform accreditation of outpatient settings, shall ensure that the certification program...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.2
  (a) Any outpatient setting may apply to an accreditation agency for a certificate of accreditation. Accreditation shall be issued by the accreditation agency solely on...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.25
  If an outpatient setting does not meet the standards approved by the division, accreditation shall be denied by the accreditation agency, which shall provide the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.3
  (a) Certificates of accreditation issued to outpatient settings by an accreditation agency shall be valid for not more than three years. (b) The outpatient setting...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.35
  (a) The Division of Medical Quality or an accreditation agency may, upon reasonable prior notice and presentation of proper identification, enter and inspect any outpatient...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.4
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that an accreditation agency operating on or before January 1, 1995, or a successor thereof, or an...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.5
  The division may evaluate the performance of an approved accreditation agency no less than every three years, or in response to complaints against an agency,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.55
  (a) If the accreditation agency is not meeting the criteria set by the division, the division may terminate approval of the agency. (b) Before terminating...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.6
  (a) The Division of Licensing shall establish by regulation a reasonable fee for an application for approval as an accreditation agency in an amount that...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.65
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to willfully and knowingly violate this chapter.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.7
  The Division of Medical Quality or the local district attorney may bring an action to enjoin a violation or threatened violation of this chapter in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.75
  (a) Except as may otherwise be provided in this section, before the Division of Medical Quality may seek an injunction as provided under Section 1248.7,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.8
  (a) Any person or entity that willfully violates this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1248.85
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude an approved accreditation agency from adopting additional standards consistent with Section 1248.15, establishing procedures for the conduct of surveys,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250
  As used in this chapter, "health facility" means any facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250.1
  (a) The state department shall adopt regulations that define all of the following bed classifications for health facilities: (1) General acute care. (2) Skilled nursing....
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250.2
  (a) As defined in Section 1250, "health facility" includes a "psychiatric health facility," defined to mean a health facility, licensed by the State Department of...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250.5
  "Council" means the Advisory Health Council.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250.6
  Any requirement placed upon, or reference to, a corporation in this chapter, shall also apply to a limited liability company.
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250.8
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 437.10, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital which meets all the criteria of subdivision (b),...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1250.11
  The State Department of Health Services shall develop written guidelines and regulations as necessary to minimize the risk of transmission of blood-borne infectious diseases from...
• California Health And Safety Code 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.
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1252
  "Special service" means a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility which is organized, staffed and equipped to provide a specific type or...
• California Health And Safety Code 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,...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1254.1
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall license psychiatric health facilities to provide their basic services specified in Section 1250. (b) Any reference in...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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,...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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) Every...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1255
  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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1256.1
  No general acute care hospital shall hold itself out directly or indirectly by any sign, brochure, or advertisement as providing any service or services which...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1257.7
  (a) By July 1, 1995, all hospitals licensed pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), and (f) of Section 1250 shall conduct a security and safety assessment...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1259
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that California is becoming a land of people whose languages and cultures give the state a global quality. The...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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,...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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:...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1262.8
  (a) A hospital shall contact an enrollee's health care service plan to obtain the enrollee's medical record information prior to admitting the enrollee for poststabilization...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265
  Any person, political subdivision of the state, or governmental agency desiring a license for a health facility, approval for a special service under this chapter,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.1
  (a) An application for licensure under this chapter may be denied by the state department if the applicant for a license has been convicted of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.2
  A "crime," within the meaning of this chapter, means a violation of a law or regulation which is substantially related to the qualifications or duties...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.3
  (a) For any individual or entity that seeks approval to operate or manage a health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.5
  (a) (1) Prior to the initial licensure or renewal of a license of any person or persons to operate or manage an intermediate care facility/developmentally...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse within his or her scope of practice may require direct care staff in an intermediate care...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.7
  (a) (1) The state department shall adopt regulations for the licensure of congregate living health facilities. The regulations shall include minimum standards of adequacy, safety,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1265.8
  In addition to the requirements of this chapter, any person, political subdivision of the state, or governmental agency desiring a license for a health facility...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266
  (a) The Licensing and Certification Division shall be supported entirely by federal funds and special funds by no earlier than the beginning of the 2009-10...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266.1
  (a) Each new or renewal application for a license for a psychiatric health facility shall be accompanied by a fee equal in amount to the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266.5
  (a) Whenever any entity required to pay fees pursuant to Section 1266 continues to operate beyond its license expiration date, without the Licensing and Certification...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266.7
  The annual Licensing and Certification Program fee for a congregate living health facility shall be set in accordance with Section 1266.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266.9
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the State Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Program Fund. The revenue collected in accordance with...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266.10
  The amount of three million two hundred four thousand three hundred seventy dollars ($3,204,370) is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1266.12
  (a) The annual Licensing and Certification Program fee for a skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, special hospital,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267
  (a) (1) Each license issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire 12 months from the date of its issuance and each special permit shall expire...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.5
  (a) (1) Each applicant for a license to operate a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall disclose to the state department the name...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.7
  The State Department of Health Services and the State Department of Developmental Services shall jointly develop and implement licensing and Medi-Cal regulations appropriate to intermediate...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.8
  (a) An intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative or an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled --nursing or a congregate living health facility shall meet the same fire...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.9
  (a) The Legislature hereby declares it to be the policy of the state to prevent overconcentrations of intermediate care facilities/development ally disabled habilitative, intermediate care...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.11
  Each intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-habilitative shall designate direct care staff persons to supervise the direct care services to clients for at least 56 hours per...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.12
  No person shall be admitted, or accepted for care, or discharged, by a congregate living health facility except upon the order of a physician and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.13
  Pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) and subdivision (b) of Section 1265.7, this section shall be effective until the adoption of permanent regulations. Notwithstanding,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.15
  Congregate living health facilities shall be freestanding, but this does not preclude their location on the premises of a hospital. Congregate living health facilities shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.16
  (a) A congregate living health facility which serves six or fewer persons shall be considered a residential use of property for purposes of any zoning...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.17
  Each congregate living health facility shall conspicuously post the license, or a true copy thereof in a location accessible to public view.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1267.19
  Congregate living health facilities shall not be subject to architectural plan review by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. As part of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1268
  (a) Upon the filing of the application for licensure or for a special permit for special services and full compliance with this chapter and the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1268.5
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1268 requiring full compliance with this chapter and the rules and regulations of the state department as a condition...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1268.6
  Commencing July 1, 1997, it shall be a requirement of initial licensure of an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-habilitative or an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-nursing that...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1269
  Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license or for a special permit for special services, the state department shall notify the applicant...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1270
  The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the following institutions: (a) Any facility conducted by and for the adherents of any well-recognized church...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1271
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that uniform orientation and training are fundamental to ensuring a high level of competency of state personnel charged with...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1271.1
  (a) A health facility may place up to 50 percent of its licensed bed capacity in voluntary suspension for a period not exceeding three years,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1271.15
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, including, but not limited to, Section 1271.1, a health facility may do any of the following:...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1273
  Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but shall receive the current per diem, subsistence, and travel reimbursement paid to state managers, supervisors, and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1274
  The committee shall meet on call of the director but no less than one time per year.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275
  (a) The state department shall adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any rules or regulations governing other health facilities, the regulations developed by the State Department of Mental Health for psychiatric health facilities shall...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any rules or regulations governing other health facilities, the regulations adopted by the state department for chemical dependency recovery hospitals shall prevail. The...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275.3
  (a) The State Department of Health Services and the State Department of Developmental Services shall jointly develop and implement licensing and Medi-Cal regulations appropriate for...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275.5
  (a) The regulations relating to the licensing of hospitals, heretofore adopted by the Department of Public Health pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1400)...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275.6
  (a) A health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 1250 may provide in any alternative setting health care services and programs...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1275.7
  (a) The Legislature makes the following findings and declarations: (1) The theft of newborn babies from hospitals is a serious societal problem that must be...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276
  (a) The building standards published in the State Building Standards Code by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and the regulations adopted by...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.05
  (a) The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall allow any general acute care hospital facility that needs to relocate services on an interim...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.1
  In setting personnel standards for licensed health facilities pursuant to Section 1276, the department may set such standards itself or may adopt them by reference...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.2
  Standards and regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to Section 1276 shall not require the use of a registered nurse for the performance of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.3
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the citizens of California are in danger of being injured and killed in the state's surgical suites and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.4
  (a) By January 1, 2002, the State Department of Health Services shall adopt regulations that establish minimum, specific, and numerical licensed nurse-to-patient ratios by licensed...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.5
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations setting forth the minimum number of equivalent nursing hours per patient required in skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.6
  Each facility shall certify, under penalty of perjury and to the best of their knowledge, on a form provided by the department, that funds received...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.65
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Direct caregiver" means a registered nurse, as referred to in Section 2732 of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.7
  (a) (1) On or before May 1, 2001, the department shall determine the need, and provide subsequent recommendations, for any increase in the minimum number...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 1276, the following shall apply: (a) As used in this code, "respiratory care...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1276.9
  (a) A special treatment program service unit distinct part shall have a minimum 2.3 nursing hours per patient per day. (b) For purposes of this...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1277
  (a) No license shall be issued by the state department unless it finds that the premises, the management, the bylaws, rules and regulations, the equipment,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1278
  Any officer, employee, or agent of the state department may, upon presentation of proper identification, enter and inspect any building or premises at any reasonable...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1278.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the State of California to encourage patients, nurses, members of the medical...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1279
  (a) Every health facility for which a license or special permit has been issued shall be periodically inspected by the department, or by another governmental...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1279.1
  (a) A health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of Section 1250 shall report an adverse event to the department no later...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1279.2
  (a) (1) In any case in which the department receives a report from a facility pursuant to Section 1279.1, or a written or oral complaint...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1279.3
  (a) By January 1, 2015, the department shall provide information regarding reports of substantiated adverse events pursuant to Section 1279.1 and the outcomes of inspections...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280
  (a) The state department may provide consulting services upon request to any health facility to assist in the identification or correction of deficiencies or the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280.1
  (a) Prior to the effective date of regulations adopted to implement Section 1280.3, if a licensee of a health facility licensed under subdivision (a), (b),...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280.2
  (a) No deficiency cited pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1280 or Section 1280.1 shall be for the failure of a facility...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280.3
  (a) Commencing on the effective date of the regulations adopted pursuant to this section, the director may assess an administrative penalty in an amount of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280.4
  If a licensee of a health facility licensed under subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of Section 1250 fails to report an adverse event pursuant to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280.5
  The state department shall accept, consider, and resolve written appeals by a licensee or health facility administrator of findings made upon the inspection of a...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1280.6
  In assessing an administrative penalty pursuant to Section 1280.1 or Section 1280.3 against a licensee of a health facility licensed under subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1281
  All public and private general acute care hospitals either shall comply with the standards for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1282
  (a) The state department shall have the authority to contract for outside personnel to perform inspections of health facilities as the need arises. The state...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1283
  (a) No health facility shall surrender the physical custody of a minor under 16 years of age to any person unless such surrender is authorized...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1284
  A licensed inpatient mental health facility shall be subject to the provisions of Section 5622 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1285
  (a) No patient shall be detained in a health facility solely for the nonpayment of a bill. (b) For the purposes of this section, "detained"...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1286
  (a) Smoking shall be prohibited in patient care areas, waiting rooms, and visiting rooms of a health facility, except those areas specifically designated as smoking...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the licensee of each skilled nursing or intermediate care facility shall notify, in writing, all patients for whom...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288.4
  A health facility licensed under subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of Section 1250 shall post conspicuously, in a prominent location within the premises and accessible...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1289
  (a) No owner, employee, agent, or consultant of a long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418, or member of his or her immediate...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1289.3
  (a) A long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418, which fails to make reasonable efforts to safeguard patient property shall reimburse a patient...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1289.4
  A theft and loss program shall be implemented by the long-term health care facilities within 90 days after January 1, 1988. The program shall include...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1289.5
  No provision of a contract of admission, which includes all documents which a resident or his or her representative is required to sign at the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288.5
  By July 1, 2007, the department shall appoint a Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Advisory Committee that shall make recommendations related to methods of reporting cases...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288.6
  (a) (1) Each general acute care hospital, in collaboration with infection prevention and control professionals, and with the participation of senior health care facility leadership...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288.7
  By July 1, 2007, the department shall require that each general acute care hospital, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control guidelines, take all...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288.8
  (a) By January 1, 2008, the department shall take all of the following actions to protect against health care associated infection (HAI) in general acute...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1288.9
  By January 1, 2009, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Require each general acute care hospital to develop, implement, and periodically evaluate...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1290
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (c), any person who violates this chapter or Section 127050 or 128600, or who willfully or repeatedly...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1291
  The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of Section 1253 in the superior court in and for the county...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1292
  Any action brought by the director against a health facility shall not abate by reason of a sale or other transfer of ownership of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1293
  The district attorney of every county shall, upon application by the state department or its authorized representative, institute and conduct the prosecution of any action...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1293.2
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any of the following: (a) Willfully prevent, interfere with, or attempt to impede in any way...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1294
  The state department may suspend or revoke any license or special permit issued under the provisions of this chapter upon any of the following grounds...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1294.5
  The department may suspend or revoke any license or special permit issued under the provisions of this chapter if the licensee or holder of a...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1295
  Proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of licenses or special permits under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Section 100171. In the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1296
  The director may temporarily suspend any license or special permit prior to any hearing, when in his or her opinion the action is necessary to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1297
  The withdrawal of an application for a license or a special permit after it has been filed with the state department shall not, unless the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1298
  (a) (1) No person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state shall continue to operate, conduct,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1300
  (a) Any licensee or holder of a special permit may, with the approval of the state department, surrender his or her license or special permit...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1305
  (a) Every insurer providing professional liability insurance to a health facility licensed pursuant to this chapter and every health facility or associated group of health...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1306
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no insurer shall enter into a settlement exceeding three thousand dollars ($3,000) to settle a claim or action referred...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1307
  The state department shall keep a record of all reports made pursuant to Section 1305.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1308
  The state department shall notify every health facility licensed pursuant to this chapter and every insurer providing professional liability insurance to such health facilities of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1312
  Before a person who is required to register as a sex offender under Section 290 of the Penal Code is released into a long-term health...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1317.1
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall control the construction of this article: (a) "Emergency services and care" means medical screening, examination, and...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1317.2
  No person needing emergency services and care may be transferred from a hospital to another hospital for any nonmedical reason (such as the person's inability...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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.
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code 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...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) (1) "Gross receipts" means gross receipts paid as compensation for services provided to residents...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.2
  (a) As a condition for participation in the Medi-Cal program, there shall be imposed each state fiscal year upon the entire gross receipts of a...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.4
  (a) On or before August 31 of each year, each designated intermediate care facility subject to Section 1324.2 shall report to the department, in a...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.6
  (a) The Director of Health Services, or his or her designee, shall administer this article. (b) The director may adopt regulations as are necessary to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.8
  The quality assurance fee assessed and collected pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the General Fund.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.10
  In addition to the rate of payment that an eligible facility would otherwise receive for intermediate care facility services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries, an eligible...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.12
  (a) (1) The department shall seek approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the implementation of this article. (2) If after...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.14
  In implementing this article, the department may utilize the services of the Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary through a change order to the fiscal intermediary contract to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.20
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Continuing care retirement community" means a provider of a continuum of services, including independent...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.21
  (a) For facilities licensed under subdivision (c) of Section 1250, there shall be imposed each state fiscal year a uniform quality assurance fee per resident...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.22
  (a) The quality assurance fee, as calculated pursuant to Section 1324.21, shall be paid by the provider to the department for deposit in the State...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.23
  (a) The Director of Health Services, or his or her designee, shall administer this article. (b) The director may adopt regulations as are necessary to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.24
  The quality assurance fee assessed and collected pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the State Treasury.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.25
  The funds assessed pursuant to this article shall be available to enhance federal financial participation in the Medi-Cal program or to provide additional reimbursement to,...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.26
  In implementing this article, the department may utilize the services of the Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary through a change order to the fiscal intermediary contract to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.27
  (a) (1) The department shall request approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the implementation of this article. In making this...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.28
  (a) This article shall be implemented as long as both of the following conditions are met: (1) The state receives federal approval of the quality...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.29
  The quality assurance fee shall cease to be assessed and collected on or after July 31, 2009.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1324.30
  This article shall become inoperative on July 31, 2009, and, as of January 1, 2010, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1325
  The Legislature finds and declares that the transfer trauma which accompanies the abrupt and involuntary transfer of patients from one nursing home to another should...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1325.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to empower the state department to take quick, effective action to protect the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1326
  As used in this article, "long-term health care facility" means any skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled, intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1327
  (a) Whenever circumstances exist indicating that continued management of a long-term health care facility by the current licensee would present a substantial probability or imminent...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1327.1
  The state department shall investigate within 30 days of receipt of a complaint alleging that circumstances permitting a petition for receivership under Section 1327 exist...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1327.2
  In the event that the state department proceeds with a receivership petition, the state department shall hold an informational meeting in the affected community for...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1327.3
  Subdivision (b) of Section 1327 shall not be construed to prohibit the state department from including on its list of qualified receivers a consortium of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1327.5
  No person shall impede the operation of a receivership created under Section 1327. There shall be an automatic stay for a 60-day period subsequent to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1328
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the receiver shall be liable only for damages resulting from gross negligence in the operation of the facility...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1329
  (a) When a receiver is appointed, the licensee may, at the discretion of the court, be divested of possession and control of the facility in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1329.5
  (a) A receiver may not be required to honor any lease, mortgage, or secured transaction entered into by the licensee of the facility and another...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1330
  A monthly accounting shall be made by the receiver to the state department of all moneys received and expended by the receiver on or before...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1331
  (a) The receiver shall be appointed for an initial period of not more than six months. The initial six-month period may be extended for additional...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1332
  The salary of the receiver shall be set by the court commensurate with long-term health care facility industry standards, giving due consideration to the difficulty...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1333
  (a) To the extent state funds are advanced for the salary of the receiver or for other expenses in connection with the receivership, as limited...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1334
  (a) Nothing in this article shall impair the right of the owner of a long-term health care facility to dispose of his or her property...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1335
  The state department shall adopt regulations for the administration of this article. Nothing in this article shall impair the authority of the state department to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1336
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a long-term health care facility shall give written notice to the affected patients or to the guardians of the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1336.1
  (a) After notifying its affected patients, the facility shall, in response to inquiries made by prospective patients or their representatives, include notification of the change...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1336.2
  (a) Before residents are transferred due to any change in the status of the license or operation of a facility, including a facility closure or...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1336.3
  (a) In the event of an emergency, such as earthquake, fire, or flood which threatens the safety or welfare of patients in a facility, the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1336.4
  Failure to comply with the requirements in Sections 1336 to 1336.3, inclusive, shall be subject to issuance of citations and imposition of civil penalties pursuant...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337
  (a) The Legislature finds that the quality of patient care in skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities is dependent upon the competence of the personnel...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.1
  A skilled nursing or intermediate care facility shall adopt an approved training program that meets standards established by the state department. The approved training program...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.2
  (a) An applicant for certification as a certified nurse assistant shall comply with each of the following: (1) Be at least 16 years of age....
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.3
  (a) The state department shall prepare and maintain a list of approved training programs for nurse assistant certification. The list shall include training programs conducted...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.4
  Every skilled nursing or intermediate care facility shall designate a licensed nurse as a director of staff development who shall be responsible for the management...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.5
  (a) Approved training programs shall be conducted during the normal working hours of the nurse assistant unless the nurse assistant receives at least the normal...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.6
  (a) Certificates issued under this article shall be renewed every two years and renewal shall be conditional upon the occurrence of all of the following:...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.8
  (a) The state department shall investigate complaints concerning misconduct by certified nurse assistants and may take disciplinary action pursuant to Section 1337.9. (b) The state...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1337.9
  (a) (1) The state department may deny an application for, initiate an action to suspend or revoke a certificate for, or deny a training and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1338
  (a) The state department shall, through the Medi-Cal program, provide rate adjustments to skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities for the portion of additional costs...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1338.1
  The state department shall assign sufficient qualified employees to supervise and evaluate training programs required by this article.
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1338.2
  (a) The state department shall convene a work group to develop recommendations to the department on ways to expand the availability of training programs and...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1338.3
  The State Director of Health Services may adopt emergency regulations pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1338.5
  (a) (1) (A) A criminal record clearance shall be conducted for all nurse assistants by the submission of fingerprint images and related information to the...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) In many areas, small, rural general acute care hospitals are experiencing financial difficulties brought upon partially because...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.3
  It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature to designate certain general acute care hospitals as primary health service hospitals, which will facilitate the diversification...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.5
  As used in this article, unless otherwise indicated: (a) "Health systems agency" means a health systems agency established pursuant to Public Law 93-641. (b) "Primary...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.7
  The state department shall administer the program authorized in this article. In administering the program, the state department shall do all of the following: (a)...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.8
  The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall review and approve the number of swing beds that may be designated pursuant to paragraph (4)...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.9
  In order to be eligible for designation as a primary health service hospital, a hospital shall be licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.9
  (a) The state department may request and maintain employment information for nurse assistants and direct care staff of intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled, other than state-operated...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.11
  Health systems agencies shall do all of the following: (a) Verify information in the health service plan received from hospitals in their respective health service...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.13
  Any primary health service hospital, or any group thereof, may submit a health service plan to the state department when a public meeting, which satisfies...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.15
  A primary health service hospital may request waivers pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 1339.7, and Section 1339.25, authorization for swing beds pursuant to Section...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.17
  A primary health service hospital may amend its health service plan. Such amendments shall be subject to the provisions of subdivision (c) of Section 1337.7...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.19
  The primary health service hospital shall operate under the following requirements: (a) The primary health service hospital shall be subject to the regulations contained in...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.21
  (a) In accordance with the procedures prescribed in subdivision (h) of Section 1339.7, the state department shall terminate a hospital's health service plan or its...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.25
  Implementation of this article shall be consistent with federal rules and regulations in effect on January 1, 1979, and as adopted on or after such...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.30
  A Special Hospital: Hospice Pilot Project is hereby created. This pilot project shall be established and administered by the department, and shall consist of up...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.31
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Hospice" means a specialized form of multidisciplinary health care which is designed to...
• California Health And Safety Code Section 1339.32
  A special hospital: hospice shall be deemed to provide acute palliative care. All patients receiving inpatient care in a Special Hospital: Hospice Project