Section 125215 Of Article 2. Long-term Care For Degenerative Genetic Disease From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 106. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 2.
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. The department and the State Department of Social Services
shall review regulations that currently provide disincentives to
providers of in-home and out-of-home long-term care resources, as
defined in Section 125205, to accept and serve persons with chronic
and degenerative disorders. The review shall be conducted with
assistance and input from the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program
of the department. These departments shall provide a list of those
regulations to the Legislature by September 1, 1982. The regulations
subject to review shall be those regulations that do the following:
(a) Affect the admission of patients to state-licensed skilled
nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and community
residential care facilities.
(b) Affect the staffing ratios necessary to care for persons with
chronic and degenerative conditions, as defined, within those
facilities.
(c) Affect the likelihood of facilities, or of day care programs
and in-home support service programs, to refuse the admission of
persons with chronic and degenerative conditions, solely on the basis
of anticipated jeopardy to their licensing, or on the basis of
anticipated liability to the facilities arising from instances where
a person's degenerative condition, by its own clinical merits,
results in medical complications that are, in fact, entirely
unrelated to the quality of care provided by the facility or program.