Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The State Department of Public Health shall develop written guidelines and regulations as necessary to minimize the risk of transmission of blood-borne infectious diseases from health care worker to patient, from patient to patient, and from patient to health care worker. In so d…

(a) (1) As defined in Section 1250, “health facility” includes a “psychiatric health facility,” defined to mean a health facility, licensed by the State Department of Health Care Services, that provides 24-hour inpatient care for people with mental health disorders, severe substa…

(a) (1) “Chemical dependency recovery hospital” means a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient chemical dependency recovery services for persons who have a dependency on alcohol or other drugs, or both alcohol and other drugs. Each facility shall have a medical director …

(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 disease” means any disease that is capable of being transmitted from person to person with or without contact a…

“Council” means the Advisory Health Council. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1202.)

Any requirement placed upon, or reference to, a corporation in this chapter, shall also apply to a limited liability company. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 685, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)

(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 United States Department of Health and Human Services under the federal Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, the department may …

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute ca…

“License” means a basic permit to operate a health facility with an authorized number and classification of beds. A license shall not be transferable. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 854.)

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 it may reclassify all of its general acute care beds to acute psychiatric without first obtaining a certificat…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, upon application of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the department shall change the license category of a general acute care hospital licensed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to a correctional treatment cent…

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 specified in Section 1255 when the state department has determined that the health facility has met the standards for quality of care establi…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Camp Fire in 2018 resulted in the destruction of most of the towns of the eastern part of the County of Butte, including the towns of Paradise, Magalia, and Concow, as well as Feather River Hospital in Paradise …

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Holden-Moscone-Garamendi Genetically Handicapped Persons Program. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 353. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)

(a) The Director of Health Care Services shall establish and administer a program for the medical care of persons with genetically handicapping conditions, including cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, Huntington’s disease, Friedreich’s Ataxia, Joseph’s disease, Von…

As used in this article, “genetically handicapping condition” shall mean a disease that is accepted as being genetic in origin by the American Society of Human Genetics. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The program established under this article shall include any or all of the following medical and social support services: (a) Initial intake and diagnostic evaluation. (b) The cost of blood transfusion and use of blood derivatives, or both. (c) Rehabilitation services, including …

The director shall establish the rate structure for reimbursement of physicians and supportive services. The rates shall not be less than the amounts paid for provider services under the Medi-Cal Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfar…

Reimbursement under this article shall not be made for any services that are available to the recipient under any other private, state, or federal programs or under other contractual or legal entitlements, except for those instances where the department determines that prolonged …

(a) Any person found eligible for services under this article whose employer-sponsored health coverage is later terminated or any person who applied for services provided under this article whose employer-sponsored health coverage was terminated during the six-month period prior …

(a) The department may require a client under this article to apply to enroll or otherwise participate in any other state or federal program or other contractual or legal entitlement that would provide services to the client that would otherwise be reimbursed pursuant to this art…

The department shall receive and expend all funds made available to it by the federal government, the state, its political subdivisions or from other sources for the purposes of this article. Payment for the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program shall be made by the department.…

(a) Commencing July 1, 2009, except as provided in subdivision (d), each client determined or redetermined by the department to be eligible for services provided pursuant to this article shall pay an annual enrollment fee to the department as set forth in this section. (b) (1) Th…

The department shall maintain sufficient, appropriate staff to carry out this article. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The health care benefits and services specified in this article, to the extent that the benefits and services are neither provided under any other federal or state law nor provided nor available under other contractual or legal entitlements of the person, shall be provided to any…

The department shall require all applicants to the program who may be eligible for cash grant public assistance or for Medi-Cal to apply for Medi-Cal eligibility prior to becoming eligible for funded services. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) (1) By July 1, 2016, or a subsequent date determined by the department, Genetically Handicapped Persons Program (GHPP) requests for authorization of services, excluding requests for authorization of services submitted by dental providers enrolled in the Medi-Cal Dental progra…

Notwithstanding any other law, the department is considered to be the purchaser, but not the dispenser or distributor, of blood factor products under the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program. The department may receive manufacturers’ discounts, rebates, or refunds based on the…

(a) The department may enter into contracts with one or more manufacturers on a negotiated or bid basis as the purchaser, but not the dispenser or distributor, of factor replacement therapies under the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program for the purpose of enabling the depart…

(a) “Special service” means a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type or types of patient care and that has been identified by regulations of the state department and for which the state dep…

(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, or maintain a health facility in this state, without first obtaining a license therefor as p…

(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 utilize beds designated for that purpose to provide intermediate care for the developmentally disabled without obtainin…

As used in Section 1253.3, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Applicant” means any person, as defined in Section 19, that has submitted an application for a license, pursuant to Section 1265, to operate a health facility as defined under subdivision (k). (b) “Application…

(a) No person, as defined in Section 19, nor an applicant for licensure, change of ownership, or change of management shall acquire, either directly or indirectly, an ownership interest in a skilled nursing facility nor operate, establish, manage, conduct, or maintain a skilled n…

(a) (1) A general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, seeking to provide skilled nursing services in a distinct part shall submit an application and documentation to the State Department of Public Health. If the distinct part meets the requirements…

(a) The State Department of Public Health, upon issuance and renewal of a license for a general acute care hospital as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, an acute psychiatric hospital as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1250, or a special hospital as defined in subd…

(a) This section shall govern applications by general acute care hospitals for supplemental services approval for outpatient clinic services. (b) Upon receipt of an initial application by a licensed general acute care hospital to add a new or modify an existing outpatient service…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, “observation services” means outpatient services provided by a general acute care hospital and that have been ordered by a provider, to those patients who have unstable or uncertain conditions potentially serious enough to warrant close observati…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (e) and (f), the state department shall inspect and license health facilities. The state department shall license health facilities to provide their respective basic services specified in Section 1250. Except as provided in Section 1253, the…

(a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall license psychiatric health facilities to provide their basic services specified in Section 1250. (b) Any reference in any statute to Section 1254 shall be deemed and construed to also be a reference to this section. (Amended …

(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 specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1250.3. (b) Any reference in any statute to Section 1254 shall be deem…

(a) A general acute care hospital shall adopt a policy for providing family or next of kin with a reasonably brief period of accommodation, as described in subdivision (b), from the time that a patient is declared dead by reason of irreversible cessation of all functions of the e…

(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, and spiritual components. In addition, the Legislature finds and declares that the treatment of…

(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 effects upon infants and young children and emphasizing measures that may reduce the risk. (b) Th…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that pain be assessed and treated promptly, effectively, and for as long as pain persists. (b) A health facility licensed pursuant to this chapter shall, as a condition of licensure, include pain as an item to be assessed. The health facili…

(a) 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 1277 to offer special services, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Radiation therapy department. (2) Burn ce…