AB 1974, as amended, Quirk. Health facilities: special services.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits a health facility from providing a special service without the approval of the department. Existing law defines a “special service” to mean a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type of patient care and that has been identified by regulations of the department and for which the department has established special standards for quality of care.
The bill would specify that a “special service” does not include a functional division, department, or unit of a nursing facilitybegin insert that is certified to participate as a provider in the Medicareend insertbegin insert or Medi-Cal program andend insert that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide physical therapy services, occupational therapy services, or speech pathology and audiology services to residents of the facility.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1252 of the Health and Safety Code is
2amended to read:
“Special service” means a functional division,
4department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed,
5and equipped to provide a specific type or types of patient care
6and that has been identified by regulations of the state department
7and for which the state department has established special standards
8for quality of care. “Special service” does not include a functional
9division, department, or unit of a nursing facilitybegin insert, as defined in
10subdivision (k) of Section 1250,end insert that is organized, staffed, and
11equipped to provide physical therapy services, occupational therapy
12services, or speech pathology and audiology services to residents
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of the facility.
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