Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

If an outpatient setting does not meet the standards approved by the board, accreditation shall be denied by the accreditation agency, which shall provide the outpatient setting notification of the reasons for the denial. An outpatient setting may reapply for accreditation at any…

(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 shall notify the accreditation agency within 30 days of any significant change in ownership, including, but not limi…

(a) Every outpatient setting that is accredited shall be inspected by the accreditation agency and may also be inspected by the Medical Board of California. The Medical Board of California shall ensure that accreditation agencies inspect outpatient settings. (b) Unless otherwise …

(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 accreditation agency thereafter operating as part of a joint program granted temporary certification as an accreditation agency by the divisi…

The board shall evaluate the performance of an approved accreditation agency no less than every three years, or in response to complaints against an agency, or complaints against one or more outpatient settings accreditation by an agency that indicates noncompliance by the agency…

(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 approval of an accreditation agency, the division shall provide the accreditation agency with notice of any deficiencies and …

(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 is reasonably necessary to recover the cost of implementing and administering this chapter, and not to exceed five thousand do…

It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to willfully and knowingly violate this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1276, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1995.)

(a) The board shall investigate all complaints concerning a violation of this chapter. With respect to any complaints relating to a violation of Section 1248.1, or upon discovery that an outpatient setting is not in compliance with Section 1248.1, the board shall investigate and,…

(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, the Division of Medical Quality shall notify the outpatient setting of all deficiencies in its compliance with this chapter, an…

(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 and subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per day of violation. (b) In determining the punishment to be impo…

This chapter shall not preclude an approved accreditation agency from adopting additional standards consistent with Section 1248.15, establishing procedures for the conduct of onsite inspections, selecting onsite inspectors to perform accreditation onsite inspections, or establis…

(a) The State Department of Public Health shall develop a coordinated state strategy for addressing the health-related needs of women, including implementation of goals and objectives for women’s health. (b) The approved programmatic costs associated with this strategy shall be t…

(a) The State Department of Public Health shall place priority on providing information to consumers, patients, and health care providers regarding women’s gynecological cancers, including signs and symptoms, risk factors, the benefits of early detection through appropriate diagn…

(a) The State Department of Public Health shall include in any literature that it produces regarding breast cancer information that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Summarized information on risk factors for breast cancer in younger women, including…

(a) The California Reproductive Justice and Freedom Fund (RJ Fund) is hereby established. The goal of the RJ Fund is to dismantle historic and standing systemic reproductive and sexual health inequities through medically accurate, culturally congruent education and outreach, as w…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Protection of Human Subjects in Medical Experimentation Act. (Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 360.)

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that medical experimentation on human subjects is vital for the benefit of mankind, however such experimentation shall be undertaken with due respect to the preciousness of human life and the right of individuals to determine what is done…

As used in the chapter, “experimental subject’s bill of rights,” means a list of the rights of a subject in a medical experiment, written in a language in which the subject is fluent. Except as otherwise provided in Section 24175, this list shall include, but not be limited to th…

As used in this chapter, “informed consent” means the authorization given pursuant to Section 24175 to have a medical experiment performed after each of the following conditions have been satisfied: (a) The subject or subject’s conservator or guardian, or other representative, as…

As used in this chapter, “medical experiment” means: (a) The severance or penetration or damaging of tissues of a human subject or the use of a drug or device, as defined in Section 109920 or 109925, electromagnetic radiation, heat or cold, or a biological substance or organism, …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall be subjected to any medical experiment unless the informed consent of such person is obtained. (b) If a person is under a conservatorship of the person or of the person and estate, pursuant to Division 4 (commencin…

(a) Any person who is primarily responsible for conduct of a medical experiment and who negligently allows the experiment to be conducted without a subject’s informed consent, as provided in this chapter, shall be liable to the subject in an amount not to exceed ten thousand doll…

This chapter shall not supersede, but shall be in addition to, Article 4 (commencing with Section 111515) of Chapter 6 of Part 5 of Division 104 of this code and Title 2.1 (commencing with Section 3500) of Part 3 of the Penal Code. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 206. Eff…

(a) This chapter does not apply to a medical experimental treatment that benefits a patient subject to a life-threatening emergency if all of the following conditions are met: (1) Care is provided in accordance with the procedures and the additional protections of the rights and …

(a) Except for this section and the requirements set forth in Sections 24172 and 24176, this chapter shall not apply to any person who is conducting a medical experiment as an investigator within an institution that holds an assurance with the United States Department of Health a…

This chapter shall not apply to a pharmacist dispensing drugs upon a prescription. (Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 360.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, this chapter does not apply to an adult in a terminal condition who executes a directive directing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures pursuant to Section 7188. To the extent of any conflict, Division 4.…