Health facilities: emergency medical services.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material specifies a distance of 15 miles, not 30 miles as initially stated.

Health Facilities: Emergency Medical Services

The bill allows Del Puerto Health Care District to operate one rural emergency stabilization center and waive certain hospital licensing requirements if it meets specific conditions.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Department of Public Health to issue a special permit for Del Puerto Health Care District to run one rural emergency stabilization center.
• Waives some general acute care hospital licensing rules for the district's emergency stabilization center, as long as certain requirements are met.
• Needs the district to have written agreements with nearby hospitals within 15 miles that have licensed emergency departments.
• Limits how long the special permit lasts based on factors like building a new hospital in the area.
• Removes this authorization one year after the rural emergency stabilization center stops operating.

Who It Names or Affects

• Del Puerto Health Care District
• General acute care hospitals within 15 miles of the rural emergency stabilization center

Terms To Know

Emergency Stabilization Center

A place where patients receive immediate medical treatment to stabilize their condition before being transferred to a hospital.

General Acute Care Hospital

A hospital that provides emergency and general medical care for people who need urgent attention but are not in critical condition.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify an effective date.
• It only applies to Del Puerto Health Care District and its rural emergency stabilization center.
• The distance requirement is specified as within a 15-mile radius, not 30 miles.

Official Summary Text

AB 2282, as amended, Alanis.
Health facilities: emergency medical services.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate various health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. Existing law requires the department to issue a special permit, in addition to a license, to a health facility to offer one or more special services, such as an emergency center, if specified requirements are met, including that the department finds that the standards of care and services are adequate and appropriate.
Existing law requires the department to issue a special permit to allow a general acute care hospital to offer emergency stabilization services at a location that is neither inside nor contiguous to the applicant hospital if the hospital provides satisfactory evidence to the department that, among other things, the hospital has a written transfer agreement with the hospital closest
to the location where emergency stabilization services will be provided and satisfactory evidence to the department that this location meets certain requirements, including that the location is in the town of Paradise within the County of Butte and serves the same area previously served by Feather River Hospital.
This bill would require the department to issue a special permit, as specified, to Del Puerto Health Care District to authorize the district to operate one rural emergency stabilization
center
care unit
and waive designated general acute care hospital licensure requirements if specified conditions are met, including that the district enter into and maintain written transport and transfer agreements with every general acute care hospital that maintains a licensed
emergency department and is located within a 30-mile radius of the rural emergency stabilization
center.
care unit.
The bill would limit the term of the special permit based on prescribed factors, including the construction and licensure of a general acute care hospital with an operational emergency department, as specified. The bill would repeal this authorization one year after the rural emergency stabilization
center
care unit
ceases operations pursuant to these provisions.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special
statute for Del Puerto Health Care District.

Current Bill Text

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