California Health and Safety Code 1271 – (a) The Legislature finds and declares that uniform orientation …
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that uniform orientation and training are fundamental to ensuring a high level of competency of state personnel charged with enforcing state law regulating the licensure, certification, and inspection of long-term health care facilities.
(b) The state department shall develop, adopt, and implement comprehensive continuing orientation and in-service training programs. The comprehensive programs shall, at a minimum, include, but not be limited to, both of the following:
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1271
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- health facility: means a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, physical or mental, including convalescence and rehabilitation and including care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of these purposes, for one or more persons, to which the persons are admitted for a 24-hour stay or longer, and includes the following types:
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- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(1) An orientation program consisting of instruction in basic enforcement, inspection, investigation, and survey skills and techniques, patients’ rights and safety, health facility, clinic, and agency licensing regulations, and supervised on-the-job training in long-term health care facilities.
(2) Ongoing in-service training to maintain continuing competency in existing and new inspection, investigation, and enforcement skills, patient care modalities, and to assure statewide uniform interpretation and application of long-term health care facility licensing regulations.
(c) The state department shall establish and maintain a program review function responsible for inspecting, monitoring, evaluating, and providing consultative support and assistance to licensing and certification field offices. The program review shall ensure that the licensing and certification field offices implement, enforce, and interpret applicable state statutes, licensing regulations, certification standards, and departmental policies and procedures in an effective and uniform manner statewide.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 11, Sec. 3. Effective March 6, 1985.)