A health facility licensed under subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of Section 1250 shall post conspicuously, in a prominent location within the premises and accessible to public view, a notice providing the telephone number of the state department‘s regional licensing office where complaints regarding the facility may be reported. The state department shall inform the health facility of the telephone number to be included in the notice.

(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1152, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1994.)

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1288.4

  • 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:

    California Health and Safety Code 1250

  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23