Health facilities: reporting.

Existing law requires an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility and its officers to file various reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, including for hospitals only, a Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record that includes specified information, including the source of the patient's admission. Existing law also requires hospitals to file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department with the office. Existing law requires the record to contain specified patient and health data information, including the service date. This bill would additionally require the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record to note, when the source of admission is an emergency department, the service date and time and the date and time of release from emergency care. The bill would further require the Emergency Care Data Record to include the date and time of service and date and time of release from emergency care. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 343 to be operative only if this bill and SB 343 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.