Section 1282 Of Article 3. Regulations From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.
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. (a) The state department shall have the authority to
contract for outside personnel to perform inspections of health
facilities as the need arises. The state department, when feasible,
shall contract with nonprofit, professional organizations which have
demonstrated the ability to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
The organizations shall include, but not be limited to, the
California Medical Association Committee on Medical Staff Surveys and
participants in the Consolidated Hospital Survey Program.
Quality of care inspections have been performed in recent years by
the California Medical Association Committee on Staff Surveys and
other organizations which have combined their efforts in the
Consolidated Hospital Survey Program. It is the intent of the
Legislature that these organizations or comparable organizations
shall continue to perform these inspections by contract when
sufficient manpower is available from the organizations to do so,
unless the state department demonstrates that the inspections fail to
assure compliance with the quality of care standards set by this
chapter.
(b) If, pursuant to this section, the state department contracts
with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals to perform
all or any part of a quality of care inspection for a health facility
specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, and if that health
facility contracts with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals to perform an accreditation inspection and survey at the
same time as the quality of care inspection, the health facility
shall transmit to the state department, within 30 days of receipt, a
copy of the final accreditation report of the Joint Commission on the
Accreditation of Hospitals. However, if the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals conducts an accreditation inspection and
survey at a health facility at a time other than the time at which,
pursuant to this section, it participates in a quality of care
inspection at that facility, then the health facility shall not be
required to transmit a copy of the final accreditation report to the
state department.