ARTICLE 1. General

Article 1 added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1202.

§§ 1250–1264.1 · 79 sections

§ 1250 As used in this chapter, “health facility” means a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care,…
§ 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 the…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 1250.06 A licensed general acute care hospital, as defined pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250, or an acute psychiatric hospital, as defined pursuant to…
§ 1250.1 (a) The department shall adopt regulations that define all of the following bed classifications for health facilities: (1) General acute care. (2) Skilled…
§ 1250.2 (a) (1) As defined in Section 1250, “health facility” includes a “psychiatric health facility,” defined to mean a health facility, licensed by the State…
§ 1250.3 (a) (1) “Chemical dependency recovery hospital” means a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient chemical dependency recovery services for persons who…
§ 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…
§ 1250.5 “Council” means the Advisory Health Council.
§ 1250.6 Any requirement placed upon, or reference to, a corporation in this chapter, shall also apply to a limited liability company.
§ 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 United States…
§ 1250.8 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of…
§ 1250.10 (a) (1) “Psychiatric residential treatment facility” means a health facility licensed by the State Department of Health Care Services, that is operated by a…
§ 1250.11 The State Department of Public Health shall develop written guidelines and regulations as necessary to minimize the risk of transmission of blood-borne…
§ 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.
§ 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…
§ 1251.4 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, upon application of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the department shall change the license category of a…
§ 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 specified in Section…
§ 1251.6 (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…
§ 1252 (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…
§ 1253 (a) No person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state shall operate,…
§ 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…
§ 1253.2 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…
§ 1253.3 (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…
§ 1253.4 (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…
§ 1253.5 (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…
§ 1253.6 (a) This section shall govern applications by general acute care hospitals for supplemental services approval for outpatient clinic services. (b) Upon receipt…
§ 1253.7 (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…
§ 1254 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (e) and (f), the state department shall inspect and license health facilities. The state department shall license health…
§ 1254.1 (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall license psychiatric health facilities to provide their basic services specified in Section 1250. (b) Any…
§ 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…
§ 1254.4 (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…
§ 1254.5 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the disease of eating disorders is not simply medical or psychiatric, but involves biological, sociological,…
§ 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,…
§ 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) A health facility…
§ 1255 (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…
§ 1255.1 (a) Any hospital that provides emergency medical services under Section 1255 shall, as soon as possible, but not later than 180 days prior to a planned…
§ 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…
§ 1255.25 (a) (1) Except as provided in subparagraph (3), not less than 120 days prior to closing a health facility, as defined in subdivision (a) or (b) of 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…
§ 1255.5 For purposes of Section 1255, the following definitions apply: (a) “Cardiac catheterization” includes an intravascular insertion of a catheter into the heart…
§ 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,…
§ 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 county or…
§ 1255.8 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Colonized” means that a pathogen is present on the patient’s body, but…
§ 1255.9 (a) (1) A skilled nursing facility shall have a full-time, dedicated Infection Preventionist (IP). (2) The IP role may be filled either by one full-time IP…
§ 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 treatment of human…
§ 1256.01 (a) The Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Program is hereby established in the department. The purpose of the program is to allow the…
§ 1256.05 (a) For purposes of this section and Section 1256.06, the following definitions apply: (1) “Critical access hospital” means a hospital designated by the State…
§ 1256.06 A hospital requesting approval to establish a standby perinatal service pursuant to Section 1256.05 shall implement and maintain all of the following…
§ 1256.1 A general acute care hospital shall not hold itself out directly or indirectly by any sign, brochure, or advertisement as providing any service or services…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 1257.5 (a) All registered nurses, certified nurse assistants, licensed vocational nurses, and physicians working in skilled nursing facilities, as defined in…
§ 1257.7 (a) After July 1, 2010, all hospitals licensed pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), and (f) of Section 1250 shall conduct, not less than annually, a security and…
§ 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…
§ 1257.9 (a) (1) The department shall recommend training for general acute care hospitals, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, and special hospitals, as…
§ 1258 No health facility which permits sterilization operations for contraceptive purposes to be performed therein, nor the medical staff of such health facility,…
§ 1259 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that California is becoming a land of people whose languages and cultures give the state a global quality. The…
§ 1259.3 (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Tyler’s Law. (b) If a person is treated at a general acute care hospital and the hospital conducts a…
§ 1259.5 By January 1, 1995, each general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, special hospital, psychiatric health facility, and chemical dependency…
§ 1259.6 (a) On or before January 1, 2025, a general acute care hospital shall establish and adopt written policies and procedures to screen patients who are 12 years…
§ 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 the Corporations…
§ 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 the Corporations…
§ 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…
§ 1261.1 (a) (1) A general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, shall allow a patient with physical, intellectual, or developmental…
§ 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 skilled…
§ 1261.4 (a) (1) A skilled nursing facility shall not contract with a person as a medical director if the person is not, or will not be within five years of the date of…
§ 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 (d), or both…
§ 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,…
§ 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,…
§ 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 another county…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 the facility is…
§ 1262.8 (a) A noncontracting hospital shall not bill a patient who is an enrollee of a health care service plan for poststabilization care, except for applicable…
§ 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 by a skilled…
§ 1264 (a) Any health facility licensed under Section 1250 that provides prenatal screening ultrasound to detect congenital heart defects shall require that the…
§ 1264.1 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Medical chaperone” means a trained employee of a provider who assists or observes… see note