California

Health and Safety Code - HSC

17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 127673.84 — (a) The department shall establish a data release committee with a membership of at least 7 and no more than 11 members appointed by the director.
• § 127674 — (a) The department shall expend the General Fund moneys appropriated in the 2018–19 Budget Act (Chapter 23 of the Statutes of 2019) for the purposes of this chapter and the former Health Care Transpar
• § 127674.1 — The department shall notify the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate, if a health care service plan or health insurer fails to comply with this chapter.
• § 127675 — (a) This chapter shall apply to a manufacturer of a prescription drug that is purchased or reimbursed by any of the following: (1) A state purchaser in California, including, but not limited to, the P
• § 127676 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the State of California has a substantial public interest in the price and cost of prescription drugs.
• § 127677 — (a) A manufacturer of a prescription drug with a wholesale acquisition cost of more than forty dollars ($40) for a course of therapy shall notify each purchaser described in Section 127675 if the incr
• § 127679 — (a) On a quarterly basis at a time prescribed by the department and in a format prescribed by the department, commencing no earlier than January 1, 2019, a manufacturer shall report to the department
• § 127681 — (a) A manufacturer of a prescription drug shall notify the department in writing if it is introducing a new prescription drug to market at a wholesale acquisition cost that exceeds the threshold set f
• § 127683 — (a) Funding for the actual and necessary expenses of the department to conduct the activities described in this section and in Sections 127676, 127679, 127681, and 127685, shall be provided, subject t
• § 127685 — (a) The department may adopt regulations or issue guidance for the implementation of this chapter.
• § 127690 — This chapter may be cited as the California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020.
• § 127691 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Generic drug” means a drug that is approved pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 355 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (
• § 127692 — (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) or its departments shall enter into partnerships, consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 127693, in consultation with other state depart
• § 127693 — (a) CHHSA shall enter into partnerships resulting in the production, procurement, or distribution of generic prescription drugs, with the intent that these drugs be made widely available to public and
• § 127694 — (a) On or before December 31, 2023, CHHSA shall submit a report to the Legislature that assesses the feasibility of directly manufacturing generic prescription drugs and selling generic prescription d
• § 127694.1 — Upon appropriation by the Legislature, CHHSA shall develop a California-based manufacturing facility for insulin, with the intent of creating high-skill, high-paying jobs with the state.
• § 127695 — (a) On or before December 31, 2022, CHHSA shall report to the Legislature on both of the following: (1) A description of the status of all drugs targeted under this chapter.
• § 127696 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all nonpublic information and documents obtained or prepared under this chapter shall not be required to be disclosed pursuant to the California Public Reco
• § 127697 — In addition to partnerships authorized pursuant to Sections 127692 and 127693, the California Health and Human Services Agency may, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, enter into partnersh
• § 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, both professional and nonprofessiona
• § 127775 — As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Approved school of nursing or approved nursing program” has the same meaning as defined in Section 2786 of the Business a
• § 127776 — (a) A health facility or clinic, upon the written request of a California community college or California State University with an approved school of nursing or approved nursing program, shall meet wi
• § 127778 — This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2032, and as of that date is repealed.
• § 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 time to secure compliance with, or
• § 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, and other health care workers to notify gove
• § 127825 — (a) As a component of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, established pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5961) of Part 7 of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code
• § 127875 — The Legislature finds and declares that California has an insufficient number of minority health professionals to meet the health care needs in the state.
• § 127880 — It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program designed to: (a) Increase the number of ethnic minorities in health professional training.
• § 127885 — (a) The department shall maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Implementing programs at colleges and universitie
• § 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 under contract with the department.
• § 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 five days after the adverse event has been detecte
• § 1279.2 — (a) (1) In any case in which the department receives a report from a facility pursuant to Section 1279.
• § 1279.3 — (a) By January 1, 2015, the department shall provide information regarding reports of substantiated adverse events pursuant to Section 1279.
• § 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 for the purpose of improving the health and safe
• § 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.
• § 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 that arise when a patient is missing from the fac
• § 127900 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that evidence exists to support the development of health promotion and health-risk reduction programs as an effective method of constraining the annual inflatio
• § 127940 — (a) In administering the National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program in accordance with Section 254q-1 of Title 42 of the United States Code and related federal regulations, the Departm
• § 127975 — Recognizing that there is a shortage in supply of registered nurses, and that if the number of nursing students is to be materially increased to meet the demand there must first be an increase in the
• § 127980 — There shall be available at least 10 scholarships per year.
• § 127985 — A person shall not be awarded a scholarship under subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 127980 unless: (a) They are a resident of California.
• § 127990 — No person shall be awarded a scholarship under subdivision (c) of Section 127980 unless he or she satisfies the requirements prescribed by subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (e) of Section 127985.
• § 127995 — The department shall administer the program of nursing education scholarships and shall for this purpose, adopt regulations as it determines are necessary to carry out this article.
• § 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 upgrading of the quality of care provi
• § 1280.1 — (a) Subject to subdivision (d), prior to the effective date of regulations adopted to implement Section 1280.
• § 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, and use or disclosure of, patient
• § 1280.16 — For purposes of Sections 1280.
• § 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.
• § 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.
• § 1280.19 — (a) Effective July 1, 2025, the Internal Health Information Integrity Quality Improvement Account is hereby abolished.
• § 1280.2 — (a) No deficiency cited pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1280 or Section 1280.
• § 1280.20 — 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 authority.
• § 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 health facility licensed under subdi
• § 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 1279.
• § 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 health facility.
• § 1280.6 — In assessing an administrative penalty pursuant to Section 1280.
• § 128000 — Applications for scholarships shall be made to the department, upon forms provided by it, at the times and in the manner prescribed by the regulations adopted by the office.
• § 128005 — The department shall award the scholarships to the applicants that it determines are best fitted to undertake the educational program for which the scholarships are awarded and will be the best qualif
• § 128010 — Scholarships shall be awarded without regard to race, religion, creed, or sex.
• § 128015 — Each scholarship under this article is for the period of no more than one academic year, and the award shall be: (a) For a person qualifying under subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 127980, the sum of
• § 128020 — A scholarship shall remain in effect only during the period, as determined by the department, that the person receiving the award achieves satisfactory progress and is regularly enrolled, within the t
• § 128025 — For the purpose of this article, “innovative programs of education in the health professions” means programs for the development of physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, dentists, pharmacists, nurses,
• § 128030 — The department, in cooperation with the California Postsecondary Education Commission, shall administer the program established pursuant to this article and shall for this purpose, adopt regulations a
• § 128035 — The department is authorized to make grants, from funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose, to assist organizations in meeting the cost of special projects to plan, develop, or establish
• § 128040 — (a) The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall report to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2002, on the feasibility of establishing a California dental loan forgiveness program uti
• § 128050 — The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall establish a health care workforce research and data center to serve as the central source of health care workforce and educational data in th
• § 128051 — The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall work with the Employment Development Department’s Labor Market Information Division, state licensing boards, and state higher education entit
• § 128052 — The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall prepare an annual report to the Legislature that does all of the following: (a) Identifies education and employment trends in the health care
• § 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 attempted sexual assault, including child
• § 1281.5 — (a) All general acute care hospitals with an emergency department shall adopt and implement policies and procedures to facilitate the self-identification of an emergency department patient as a victim
• § 128125 — The Legislature finds that there is a need to improve the effectiveness of health care delivery systems.
• § 128130 — For the purposes of this article: (a) “Department” means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.
• § 128135 — The department may designate experimental health workforce projects as approved projects where the projects are sponsored by community hospitals or clinics, nonprofit educational institutions, or gove
• § 128140 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a trainee in an approved project may perform health care services under the supervision of a supervisor where the general scope of the services has been app
• § 128145 — A trainee and his or her supervisor shall be held to the standard of care of, and shall be afforded the same immunities as, an individual otherwise legally qualified to perform the health care service
• § 128150 — Any patient being seen or treated by a trainee shall be apprised of that fact and shall be given the opportunity to refuse treatment.
• § 128155 — The department, after one or more public hearings thereon, shall establish minimum standards, guidelines, and instructions for pilot projects.
• § 128160 — (a) Pilot projects may be approved in the following fields: (1) Expanded role medical auxiliaries.
• § 128165 — The department shall carry out periodic onsite visitations of each approved project and shall evaluate each project to determine the following: (a) The new health skills taught or extent that existing
• § 128170 — The department shall approve a sufficient number of projects to provide a basis for testing the validity of the experiment.
• § 128175 — The department shall seek the advice of appropriate professional societies and appropriate healing arts licensing boards prior to designating approved projects.
• § 128180 — The department shall not approve a project for a period lasting more than two training cycles plus a preceptorship of more than 24 months, unless the department determines that the project is likely t
• § 128185 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Health Manpower Pilot Project No.
• § 128190 — The department may extend the geriatric technician pilot project, known as the Health Manpower Pilot Project No.
• § 128195 — (a) The department shall issue followup reports on geriatric technician pilot projects approved by the department following 24 months of implementation of the employment utilization phase of each proj
• § 1282 — (a) The state department shall have the authority to contract for outside personnel to perform inspections of health facilities as the need arises.
• § 128200 — (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act.
• § 128205 — As used in this article, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Family physician” means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepa
• § 128210 — There is hereby created a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, teaching health centers, programs that train postgraduate pr
• § 128230 — When funding primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants,
• § 128235 — Pursuant to this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the Director of the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall do all of the following: (a) Develop application and
• § 128250 — (a) The terms used in this article have the same meaning as in Section 128205.
• § 128251 — The members of the council, other than state employees, shall receive compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day’s attendance at a council meeting, in addition to actual and necessary trav
• § 128252 — (a) The council shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Develop graduate medical educat
• § 128295 — This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Midwifery Workforce Training Act.
• § 128296 — The Legislature finds and declares that maternity care providers are in short supply and maldistributed around the state, resulting in what the March of Dimes defines as “maternity care deserts” and “
• § 128297 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Certified nurse-midwife” means an advanced practice nurse with training in midwifery, as specified in, and a certificate issued purs
• § 128298 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a program designed primarily to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or a licens
• § 128299 — This article shall become operative on January 1, 2022.
• § 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 in writing by the child’s parent, the person having legal
• § 128300 — (a) Upon appropriation from the Legislature, the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall administer funding for a statewide study on midwifery education.
• § 128330 — As used in this article: (a) “Board” means the Board of Trustees of the Health Professions Education Foundation.
• § 128337 — Notwithstanding any other law, on or before October 1, 2021, the nonprofit public benefit corporation known as the Health Professions Education Foundation shall be dissolved.
• § 128338 — Effective with the dissolution of the Health Professions Education Foundation, any reference to the Health Professions Education Foundation, or the Foundation, in this chapter shall be deemed a refere
• § 128345 — The department may do any of the following: (a) Solicit and receive funds from business, industry, foundations, and other private or public sources for the purpose of providing financial assistance in
• § 128350 — The department shall do all of the following: (a) Provide technical and staff support to the programs in meeting all of its responsibilities.
• § 128355 — There is hereby created within the department a Health Professions Education Fund.
• § 128360 — (a) In administering this chapter, the department shall be exempt from the requirements of Chapter 3.
• § 128365 — Notwithstanding any other provision, applications for financial assistance under this article, or other documents that the department reasonably determines should not be discussed in public due to pri
• § 128370 — Notwithstanding any other law, the department may exempt from public disclosure any document in the possession of the department that pertains to a donation made pursuant to this article if the donor
• § 128371 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best interest of the State of California to provide persons who are not lawfully present in the United States with the state benefits provided
• § 128375 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that an adequate supply of professional nurses is critical to assuring the health and well-being of the citizens of California, particularly those who liv
• § 128380 — It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish the following: (a) Assure an adequate supply of appropriately trained professional nurses.
• § 128385 — (a) There is hereby created the Registered Nurse Education Program within the department.
• § 128390 — The funds made available pursuant to this article shall be used as specified in Article 14 (commencing with Section 69795) of Chapter 2 of Part 42 of the Education Code, except that the funds shall be
• § 1284 — A licensed inpatient mental health facility shall be subject to the provisions of Section 5622 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
• § 128400 — There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Registered Nurse Education Fund.
• § 128401 — (a) The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall establish the statewide Associate Degree Nursing (A.
• § 128454 — (a) There is hereby created the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information.
• § 128455 — An account shall be created within the Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in that account shall be used solely to fund grants, consistent with
• § 128458 — There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund.
• § 128475 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that an adequate supply of professional vocational nurses is critical to assuring the health and well-being of the citizens of California, particularly th
• § 128480 — It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish the following: (a) Assure an adequate supply of appropriately trained vocational nurses.
• § 128485 — There is hereby created the Vocational Nurse Education Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information.
• § 1285 — (a) No patient shall be detained in a health facility solely for the nonpayment of a bill.
• § 128500 — There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Vocational Nurse Education Fund.
• § 128501 — This article shall become operative on July 1, 2004.
• § 128550 — (a) There is hereby established within the Department of Health Care Access and Information the California Physician Corps Program.
• § 128551 — It is the intent of this article that the department provide the ongoing program management of the two programs identified in subdivision (b) of Section 128550 as a part of the California Physician Co
• § 128552 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Account” means the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians established within the Health Professions Education Fund pursu
• § 128553 — (a) Program applicants shall possess a current valid license to practice medicine in this state issued pursuant to Section 2050 of the Business and Professions Code or pursuant to the Osteopathic Act.
• § 128555 — (a) The Medically Underserved Account for Physicians is hereby established within the Health Professions Education Fund.
• § 128556 — The terms of loan repayment granted under this article shall be established by the department.
• § 128558 — This article shall become operative on July 1, 2006.
• § 128560 — For purposes of this article: (a) “Corps” means the California Reproductive Health Service Corps established pursuant to Section 128561.
• § 128561 — For the purposes of recruiting, training, and retaining a diverse workforce of reproductive health care professionals who will be part of reproductive health care teams to work in underserved areas, t
• § 128562 — The corps shall do all of the following: (a) (1) Administer and oversee scholarships and stipends for new reproductive health students, loan repayment for graduates who have acquired debt from attendi
• § 128563 — (a) The corps shall prioritize the selection of scholars from historically excluded populations and underserved areas, who reflect the patient populations they serve, to ensure greater inclusion and i
• § 128564 — (a) A scholar shall do all of the following: (1) Agree to complete abortion training as part of their health care education and to provide, or participate on a team that provides, reproductive health
• § 128565 — (a) The department shall conduct an evaluation five years after implementation to assess the impact and effectiveness of the corps.
• § 128570 — (a) The California Nurse-Midwifery Education Fund is hereby created within the Department of Health Care Access and Information for the purpose of establishing California-based, master’s level, nurse-
• § 128571 — (a) The department shall establish competitive application criteria to ensure the optimal sites selection for the education programs within the California State University system or the University of
• § 128572 — Any funds, public or private, received for the fund shall supplement, not supplant, any current or future funding to midwifery workforce education programs, including allocations to midwifery educatio
• § 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 as smoking areas, and in pat
• § 128675 — This chapter shall be known as the Health Data and Advisory Council Consolidation Act.
• § 128680 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Significant changes have taken place in recent years in the health care marketplace and in the manner of reimbursement to health facilities by gover
• § 128685 — Intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled-habilitative, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 1250, are not subject to this chapter.
• § 128690 — Intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled—nursing, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 1250, and intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled-continuous nursing, as defined i
• § 128700 — As used in this chapter, the following terms mean: (a) “Ambulatory surgery procedures” mean those procedures performed on an outpatient basis in the general operating rooms, ambulatory surgery rooms,
• § 128705 — On and after January 1, 1986, any reference in this code to the Advisory Health Council or the California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission shall be deemed a reference to the department.
• § 128730 — (a) Effective January 1, 1986, the department shall be the single state agency designated to collect the following health facility or clinic data for use by all state agencies: (1) Data required by th
• § 128734 — (a) Each organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a skilled nursing facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1250 shall file with the department as part of the informat
• § 128734.1 — (a) (1) Commencing with fiscal years ending December 31, 2023, an organization that operates, conducts, owns, manages, or maintains a skilled nursing facility or facilities licensed pursuant to subdiv
• § 128735 — An organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, shall make and file with the department, at the times as the department shall require, all of t
• § 128736 — (a) Each hospital shall file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department.
• § 128737 — (a) Each general acute care hospital and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic shall file an Ambulatory Surgery Data Record for each patient encounter during which at least one ambulatory surgery pro
• § 128738 — (a) The department shall allow and provide for, in accordance with appropriate regulations, additions or deletions to the patient level data elements listed in subdivision (g) of Section 128735, Secti
• § 128740 — (a) The following summary financial and utilization data shall be reported to the department by a hospital within 45 days of the end of a calendar quarter.
• § 128745 — (a) Commencing July 1993, and annually thereafter, the department shall publish risk-adjusted outcome reports in accordance with the following schedule: Procedures and Publication Period Conditions Da
• § 128747 — Commencing July 1, 2002, and biennially thereafter, the department shall evaluate the impact of the department’s published risk-adjusted outcome reports required by Section 128745 on mortality rates i
• § 128748 — (a) This section shall apply to any risk-adjusted outcome report under Section 128745.
• § 128750 — (a) Prior to the public release of the annual outcome reports, the department shall furnish a preliminary report to each hospital that is included in the report.
• § 128755 — (a) (1) Hospitals shall file the reports required by subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 128735 with the department within four months after the close of the hospital’s fiscal year except a
• § 128760 — (a) On and after January 1, 1986, the systems of health facility accounting and auditing formerly approved by the California Health Facilities Commission shall remain in full force and effect for use
• § 128765 — (a) The department shall maintain a file of all the reports filed under this chapter at its Sacramento office.
• § 128766 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 128765 or any other provision of law, the department, upon request, shall disclose information collected pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 128735 and Sections 128736 a
• § 128770 — (a) Any health facility or freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic that does not file any report as required by this chapter with the department is liable for a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($1
• § 128775 — (a) Any health facility or freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic affected by any determination made under this part by the department may petition the department for review of the decision.
• § 128780 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the disclosure aspects of this chapter shall be deemed complete with respect to district hospitals, and no district hospital shall be required to report or
• § 128782 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of a small and rural hospital, as defined in Section 124840, the department shall do all of the following: (a) If the hospital did not file
• § 128785 — On January 1, 1986, all regulations previously adopted by the California Health Facilities Commission that relate to functions vested in the department and that are in effect on that date, shall remai
• § 128790 — Pursuant to Section 16304.
• § 128795 — All officers and employees of the California Health Facilities Commission who, on December 31, 1985, are serving the state civil service, other than as temporary employees, and engaged in the performa
• § 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 the facility’s services are not reimbursed
• § 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 to public view, a notice providing th
• § 1288.45 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Advisory committee” or “HAI-AC” means the Healthcare Associated Infection Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 1
• § 1288.5 — (a) By July 1, 2007, the department shall appoint a Healthcare Associated Infection Advisory Committee (HAI-AC) that shall make recommendations related to methods of reporting cases of hospital acquir
• § 1288.55 — (a) (1) Each health facility, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1255.
• § 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 shall, as a compone
• § 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 of the following actions: (a) Annually offe
• § 1288.8 — (a) By January 1, 2008, the department shall take all of the following actions to protect against HAI in general acute care hospitals statewide: (1) Implement an HAI surveillance and prevention progra
• § 1288.85 — Each general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, shall do all of the following by July 1, 2015: (a) Adopt and implement an antimicrobial stewardship policy in accordanc
• § 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 compliance with policies and procedures
• § 1288.95 — (a) No later than January 1, 2010, a physician designated as a hospital epidemiologist or infection surveillance, prevention, and control committee chairperson shall participate in a continuing medica
• § 128800 — The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, or other property, real or personal, held for the benefit or
• § 128805 — The department may enter into agreements and contracts with any person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity as are necessary to carry out the functions vested in the department by this ch
• § 128810 — The department shall administer this chapter and shall make all regulations necessary to implement the provisions and achieve the purposes stated herein.
• § 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 family, or representative of a public agency or organiza
• § 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 for or replace stolen or lost patient p
• § 1289.4 — A theft and loss program shall be implemented by the long-term health care facilities within 90 days after January 1, 1988.
• § 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 time of, or as a condition of, admission to a long-term h
• § 128900 — The following definitions apply for purposes of this chapter: (a) “Clinic” means an organized outpatient health facility required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200) of
• § 128905 — (a) Commencing January 1, 2027, every clinic holding a license and, notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 1206, every intermittent clinic operated by a licensed clinic and exempt from licensure s
• § 128910 — Commencing January 1, 2027, an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a primary care clinic or intermittent clinic, and the officers thereof, shall, for every primary care clinic and
• § 128915 — The department shall maintain a file of all reports filed under this chapter and under Sections 1216 and 127285 at its Sacramento office.
• § 128920 — The department shall administer this chapter and shall adopt all regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.
• § 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 violates any rule or regulation adopted under this ch
• § 129000 — This chapter may be cited as the “California Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Law.
• § 129005 — The purpose of this chapter is to provide, without cost to the state, an insurance program for health facility construction, improvement, and expansion loans in order to stimulate the flow of private
• § 129010 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter and of Section 32127.