Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 9, § 866 - Quarterly Reports to the Director of Health

(a) Each local mental health director shall, by the last day of January, April, July, and October, report on the appropriate form to the Patients' Rights Specialist, Department of Health, the number of persons, by facility, whose rights were denied and the specific right or rights denied. Denials of rights in the following types of local facilities must be reported to the local mental health director for inclusion in each quarterly report:

(1) Facilities that treat persons involuntarily detained under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act;

(2) Local mental health facilities operated directly by or under contract with local mental health services or designated in the county plan to provide such services;

(3) Private mental institutions;

(4) Psychiatric units of general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities.

(b) The content of the quarterly reports shall enable the State Director of Health and the Patients' Rights Specialist to identify individual treatment records, if necessary, for further analysis and investigation.

(c) Each facility shall note in its report to the local mental health directors that the treatment record of a person denied a specific right is identifiable and can be located for purposes of analysis and investigation by the Department.

(d) State hospitals shall submit quarterly reports on denials of rights directly to the Patients' Rights Specialist, Department of Health, in accordance with Department directive on the patients' rights program in state hospitals, as revised 1975.

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Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 9, § 866