Bill Text: CA AB2175 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hospital specialties database.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2175 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2175-Amended.html
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Amended
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April 04, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2175
| Introduced by Assembly Member Lowenthal |
February 07, 2024 |
An act to add Section 128741 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2175, as amended, Lowenthal.
Hospital specialties database.
Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information, which is responsible for administering various programs with respect to health care professions and establishes various programs to facilitate the expansion of the health care workforce.
This bill would require a general acute care hospital to report report, annually and at the time and in the form requested by the department, certain information related to the types of
specialties on the hospital’s call panel to the department and would require the department to develop and maintain a searchable database of the reported information, as specified, and to make that database accessible to hospital staff.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 128741 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:128741.
(a) A general acute care hospital, as defined in Section 1250, shall(1) All types of specialties listed on the hospital’s call panel. This information shall
not contain personally identifiable information regarding individual providers.
(2) For each type of specialty, whether it is available seven days per week and 24 hours per day, or less than seven days per week and 24 hours per day. This information shall not contain personally identifiable information regarding individual providers.
(3) The telephone number to contact for interfacility transfers.
(b) The department shall develop
and maintain a searchable database of hospitals by location and available specialties. location, available specialties, and the information required under subdivision (a). The database shall be searchable by specialty and distance and shall be accessible to hospital staff.
