California Laws: Health and Safety Code Sections 1250-1264
- California Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: Health and Safety Code Section 1250.5
"Council" means the Advisory Health Council. ...
- California Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: Health and Safety Code Section 1250.8
(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 437.10, the state department, upon application of a general acute care hospital which meets all the criteria of subdivision...
- California Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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 Laws: 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...
