Health facilities: health care standards of practice.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to adopt, amend, or repeal any reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry out the purposes and intent of the provisions governing the licensure of health facilities and to enable the department to exercise its powers and perform its duties. This bill would authorize the department to, without taking regulatory action, update references in regulations to health care standards of practice adopted by a recognized state or national association, when the state or national association and its outdated standards are already named in the regulations, by posting on its Internet Web site in accordance with specified notice, public comment, and hearing requirements.