Health facilities: affiliate clinic: licensing.

Existing law requires any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for a clinic or a special permit for special services to file with the State Department of Public Health a verified application on forms prescribed and furnished by the department. A clinic corporation, on behalf of a primary care clinic that has held a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license for at least the immediately preceding 5 years, with no demonstrated history of repeated or uncorrected violations of specified provisions that pose immediate jeopardy to a patient, and that has no pending action to suspend or revoke its license, is authorized to file an affiliate clinic application to establish a primary care clinic at an additional site or a mobile health care unit. The department, upon receipt of the completed affiliate clinic application submitted by the clinic corporation, is required to approve a license for the affiliate clinic, without the necessity of first conducting an initial onsite survey, if specified conditions are satisfied. This bill would require the centralized application unit to publish on the department's Internet Web site current checklists and instructions concerning how to complete an application for a new affiliate clinic license, as well as how to report changes to an existing affiliate primary care clinic. The bill would also delete obsolete provisions.