SB 1248 Alquist [CDR SUPPORTS] Patient's Rights

SB 1248, as amended, Alquist Long-term health care facilities:
resident rights.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the
State Department of Health Services of skilled nursing and
intermediate care facilities. Existing law requires that written
policies regarding the rights of patients in those
facilities be established and made available by such a
facility to the patient, to any guardian, next of kin,
sponsoring agency, or representative payee, and to the public.
Existing law requires those policies and procedures to ensure that
each patient admitted to the facility has certain rights and is
notified of certain facility obligations, in addition to those
specified by regulation.