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Consent

Consent issues arise in a wide variety of circumstances including informed consent to medical procedures, release of patient information, advance health directives, research, and reporting requirements.  CHA provides assistance to members in meeting consent requirements and advocates legislation that makes consent requirements more useful and understandable.

Consent issues arise in a wide variety of circumstances including informed consent to medical procedures, release of patient information, advance health directives, research, and reporting requirements.  CHA provides assistance to members in meeting consent requirements and advocates legislation that makes consent requirements more useful and understandable.

CHA News Article

CHA Clarifies Hospitals’ Legal Requirement for Notifying First Responders About Disease Exposure
For emergency department managers, infection control officers

Lois Richardson

CHA has recently received several requests for information about laws that require hospitals to notify first responders who may have been exposed to a communicable disease while caring for a patient. State law requires a hospital’s infection control officer to notify the employer of a prehospital care professional (emergency medical technician, paramedic, fire fighter, peace officer, and others) if a patient has a specified communicable disease that may have been transmitted to the first responder. 

CHA News Article

New Law Addresses Voluntary Psychiatric Care in Emergency Departments

Sheree Lowe Lois Richardson

The California Department of Public Health reminds general acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals that, effective Jan. 1, they may not require, as a condition of admission, a person who voluntarily seeks care to be placed on an involuntary hold under Section 5150 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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