AB 931, as introduced, Conway. Clinics.
Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health is responsible for the licensing and regulation of clinics, defined as an organized outpatient health facility that provides direct specified advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less than 24 hours, and that may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home, as specified.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1200 of the Health and Safety Code is
2amended to read:
(a) As used in this chapter, “clinic” means an organized
4outpatient health facility that provides direct medical, surgical,
5dental, optometric, or podiatric advice, services, or treatment to
6patients who remain less than 24 hours, and that may also provide
7diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home as an
P2 1incident to care provided at the clinic facility. begin deleteNothing in this begin insertThis section does not end insertprohibit the
2section shall be construed to end delete
3provision of nursing services in a clinic licensed pursuant to this
4chapter. In no case shall a clinic be deemed to be a health facility
5subject to the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with
Section
61250). A place, establishment, or institution that solely provides
7advice, counseling, information, or referrals on the maintenance
8of health or on the means and measures to prevent or avoid
9sickness, disease, or injury, where that advice, counseling,
10information, or referral does not constitute the practice of medicine,
11surgery, dentistry, optometry, or podiatry, shall not be deemed a
12clinic for purposes of this chapter.
13(b) For purposes of this chapter:
14(1) “Primary care clinics” means all the types of clinics specified
15in subdivision (a) of Section 1204, including community clinics
16and free clinics.
17(2) “Specialty clinics” means all the types of clinics specified
18in subdivision (b) of Section 1204, including surgical clinics,
19chronic dialysis clinics, and rehabilitation clinics.
20(3) “Clinic corporation” means a nonprofit organization that
21operates one or more primary care clinics, as defined in paragraph
22(1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1204, that are required to be
23licensed under Section 1205, one or more mobile health care units
24required to be licensed or approved pursuant to the Mobile Health
25Care Services Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section
261765.101)) and operated as primary care clinics, or one or more
27primary care clinics and one or more mobile health care units.
28(4) “Department” means the Licensing and Certification
29Division of the State Department of Public Health, or its successor.
30(5) “Centralized applications unit” means the centralized
31applications unit in the Licensing and Certification Division of the
32department, or a successor entity.
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