Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 85072 - Personal Rights

(a) In addition to Section 80072, the following shall apply.

(b) The licensee shall insure that each client is accorded the following personal rights.

(1) To visit the facility with his/her relatives or authorized representative prior to admission.

(2) To have the facility inform his/her relatives and authorized representative, if any, of activities related to his/her care and supervision, including but not limited to notification of any modifications to the needs and services plan.

(3) To have communications to the facility from his/her relatives or authorized representative answered promptly and completely.

(4) To have visitors, including advocacy representatives, visit privately during waking hours, provided that such visitations do not infringe upon the rights of other clients.

(5) To wear his/her own clothes.

(6) To possess and use his/her own personal items, including his/her own toilet articles.

(7) To possess and control his/her own cash resources.

(8) To have access to individual storage space for his/her private use.

(9) To have access to telephones in order to make and receive confidential calls, provided that such calls do not infringe upon the rights of other clients and do not restrict availability of the telephone during emergencies.

(A) The licensee shall be permitted to require reimbursement from the client or his/her authorized representative for long distance calls.

(B) The licensee shall be permitted to prohibit the making of long distance calls upon documentation that requested reimbursement for previous calls has not been received.

(10) To mail and receive unopened correspondence.

(11) To receive assistance in exercising the right to vote.

(12) To move from the facility in accordance with the terms of the Admission Agreement.

Notes

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 85072

Note: Authority cited: Section 1530, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1501 and 1531, Health and Safety Code.