Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 107 > Part 3 > Chapter 4 > Article 1 - Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Council: means the California Health Workforce Education and Training Council. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• Family physician: means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services to individuals and families and who has received specialized training in an approved family medicine residency for three years after graduation from an accredited medical school. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Graduate medical education: means residency programs for education or training in one or more specialties or subspecialties following graduation from medical school. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Health professions education and training: means any formal organized education or training undertaken for the purpose of gaining knowledge and skills necessary to practice a specific health profession or to provide a role in a health care setting. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Financial Code 18
• Primary care physician: means a physician who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services, and has received specialized training in the areas of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, or pediatrics. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train midwives: means programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives, as those terms are defined in Section 128297. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners: means a program that provides postgraduate fellowships for clinical training in primary care. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train primary care nurse practitioners: means a program that is operated by a California school of medicine or nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California or by the Trustees of the California State University, or that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• Programs that train registered nurses: means a program that is operated by a California school of nursing and approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.