California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Regulations

• Section 1275.
  (a) (1) The department shall adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• Section 1275.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any rules or regulations governing other health facilities, the regulations developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, or a predecessor, for psychiatric...
• 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...
• Section 1275.3.
  (a) The State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Developmental Services shall jointly develop and implement licensing regulations appropriate for an intermediate care...
• Section 1275.4.
  (a) On or before January 1, 2017, each skilled nursing facility, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1250, shall adopt and implement an antimicrobial stewardship...
• Section 1275.5.
  (a) The regulations relating to the licensing of hospitals, heretofore adopted by the State Department of Public Health pursuant to former Chapter 2 (commencing with Section...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 the...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 1276.4.
  (a) By January 1, 2002, the State Department of Public Health shall adopt regulations that establish minimum, specific, and numerical licensed nurse-to-patient ratios by licensed nurse...
• 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, subject...
• 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...
• Section 1276.65.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Direct care service hours” means the actual hours of work performed per patient day by a...
• 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...
• 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 practitioner,” “respiratory...
• 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 section, “special treatment...
• Section 1277.
  (a) No license shall be issued by the department unless it finds that the premises, the management, the bylaws, rules and regulations, the equipment, the staffing,...
• 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...
• 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 staff,...
• 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 entity...
• 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 than...
• 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 involving a...
• 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 and...
• Section 1279.6.
  (a) A health facility, as defined in subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (f) of Section 1250, shall develop, implement, and comply with a patient safety plan...
• Section 1279.7.
  (a) A health facility, as defined in subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (f) of Section 1250, shall implement a facilitywide hand hygiene program.(b) Commencing January 1, 2017,...
• Section 1279.8.
  (a) Every health facility, as defined in subdivision (c), (d), (e), (g), (h), (i), or (m) of Section 1250, shall, for the purpose of addressing issues...
• 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...
• Section 1280.1.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (d), prior to the effective date of regulations adopted to implement Section 1280.3, if a licensee of a health facility licensed under...
• 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...
• Section 1280.3.
  (a) Commencing on the effective date of the regulations adopted pursuant to this section, the director may assess an administrative penalty against a licensee of a...
• Section 1280.4.
  (a) 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 1280.15.
  (a) A clinic, health facility, home health agency, or hospice licensed pursuant to Section 1204, 1250, 1725, or 1745 shall prevent unlawful or unauthorized access to,...
• Section 1280.16.
  For purposes of Sections 1280.17, 1280.18, 1280.19, and 1280.20, the following definitions apply:(a) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health.(b) “Director” means the State Public Health...
• Section 1280.17.
  (a) (1)  The department may assess an administrative fine against any person or any provider of health care, whether licensed or unlicensed, for any violation of...
• Section 1280.18.
  (a) Every provider of health care shall establish and implement appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of a patient’s medical information. Every...
• Section 1280.19.
  The Internal Health Information Integrity Quality Improvement Account is hereby created in the State Treasury. All administrative fines assessed by the department pursuant to Section...
• Section 1280.20.a.
  Notwithstanding any other law, the director may send a recommendation for further investigation of, or discipline for, a potential violation of the licensee’s relevant licensing...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 1284.
  A licensed inpatient mental health facility shall be subject to the provisions of Section 5622 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch....
• 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”...
• Section 1286.
  (a) Smoking a tobacco product shall be prohibited in patient care areas, waiting rooms, and visiting rooms of a health facility, except those areas specifically designated...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018