Radiation control: health facilities and clinics: records.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities and clinics, as defined. Under existing law, the Radiation Control Law, the department licenses and regulates persons that use devices or equipment utilizing radioactive materials. Under existing law, the department is authorized to require registration and inspection of sources of ionizing radiation, as defined. Violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires a facility to report certain information about an event in which the administration of radiation results in prescribed occurrences to the department, the affected patient, and the patient's treating physician. This bill would, instead, require a facility to report these events commencing on July 1, 2012, and would narrow the scope of information the facility is required to report. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.