AB 2069, as introduced, Maienschein. Health facilities: influenza.
Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates various types of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals.
Existing law requires a general acute care hospital, as defined, to offer, each year commencing with October 1 to the following April 1, inclusive, prior to discharge, immunizations for influenza and pneumoccal disease to inpatients, 65 years of age or older, based upon the adult immunization recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the recommendations of appropriate entitles for the prevention, detection, and control of influenza outbreaks in California general acute care hospitals, pursuant to the hospital’s standardized procedures and if the hospital has the vaccine in its possession.
This bill, in addition, would require each general acute care hospital to offer prior to discharge onsite vaccinations for influenza to inpatients who are children 6 months to 59 months of age and persons 50 years to 64 years of age, annually, beginning no later than October 1 and ending on the following April 1, except when there is a state vaccine shortage or when a physician does not recommend that the patient receive an influenza vaccine due to potential health hazards, pursuant to the standardized procedures of the hospital, if it has the vaccine in its possession, and in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, as specified. This bill would also require a general acute care hospital that offers vaccinations pursuant to the above-described provision to inform each inpatient that he or she may be required to pay for the cost of the vaccination.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 120392.10 is added to the Health and
2Safety Code, immediately following Section 120392.9, to read:
(a) Pursuant to its standardized procedures and if
4it has the vaccine in its possession, each general acute care hospital,
5as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, shall annually,
6beginning no later than October 1 and ending on the following
7April 1, except when there is a state vaccine shortage or when a
8physician does not recommend that the patient receive an influenza
9vaccine due to potential health hazards, offer prior to discharge
10onsite vaccinations for influenza to inpatients who are children six
11months to 59 months of age and persons 50 years to 64 years of
12age, in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory
13Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for
14Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department
15of Health and Human Services, and the recommendations
of
16appropriate entities for the prevention, detection, and control of
17influenza outbreaks in California general acute care hospitals as
18the recommendations exist and are annually updated, if applicable,
19on January 1 of the year in which the vaccine is offered. Nothing
20in this section shall be construed to require a hospital to cover the
21cost of a vaccination provided pursuant to this section.
22(b) A general acute care hospital that offers vaccinations
23pursuant to subdivision (a) shall inform each inpatient that he or
24she may be required to pay for the cost of the vaccination.
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