Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4480. Section 4480.
As used in this article, “officers” of a state hospital means:
(a)
Clinical director.
(b)
Hospital administrator.
(c)
Hospital director.
CHAPTER 3. Officers and Employees [4480. - 4499.]
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in effectCal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4481. Section 4481.
(a)
The Director of Developmental Services shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the hospital administrator for each state hospital. The director shall appoint either the clinical director or the hospital administrator to be the hospital director.
(b)
The director shall appoint a medical director for each state hospital where neither the hospital director nor the clinical director is a licensed physician. The medical director shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in California and shall be responsible for standards, coordination, surveillance, and planning for improvement of medical care in the facility. The director shall accomplish the requirements of this subdivision by a reclassification and redirection of non-level-of-care administrative positions in existence on December 31, 1983.
(c)
The director shall appoint a program director for each program at a state hospital. In each hospital for the developmentally disabled, the director may appoint a medical program director.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4482. Section 4482.
The Director of the State Department of Developmental Services shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests from the various hospitals, and with the concurrence of the Health and Welfare Agency, the State Personnel Board, the Department of Finance and the Department of General Services, as appropriate, may establish positions to assist with the planning, development, direction, management, supervision, and evaluation of patient, administrative and support services in the hospital facility.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4483. Section 4483.
Salaries of resident and other officers and wages of employees shall be included in the budget estimates of, and paid in the same manner as other expenses of, the state hospitals.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4484. Section 4484.
The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients who are developmentally disabled. The efforts and direction of the officers and employees of each state hospital shall be directed to this end.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4485. Section 4485.
Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the hospital administrator, the clinical director of each state hospital shall be responsible for the planning, development, direction, management, supervision, and evaluation of all patient services, and of the supervision of research and clinical training.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4486. Section 4486.
Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the clinical director, the hospital administrator shall be responsible for the planning, development, direction, management and supervision of all administrative and supportive services in the hospital facility. Such services include, but are not limited to:
(a)
All administrative functions such as personnel, accounting, budgeting, and patients’ accounts.
(b)
All life-support functions such as food services, facility maintenance and patient supplies.
(c)
All other business and security functions.
It shall be the responsibility of the hospital administrator to provide support services, as specified in this section, within available resources, to all hospital treatment programs.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4487. Section 4487.
The hospital director is the chief executive officer of the hospital and is responsible for all hospital operations. If the hospital director is the clinical director, then the hospital administrator is responsible to him; if the hospital director is the hospital administrator, then the clinical director is responsible to him.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4488. Section 4488.
As often as a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of Developmental Services, he shall appoint, as provided in Section 4481, a clinical director, a hospital administrator, a hospital director, a medical program director, and program directors.
A hospital administrator shall be a college graduate preferably with an advanced degree in hospital, business or public administration and shall have had experience in this area. He shall receive a salary which is competitive with other private and public mental hospital administrators.
A clinical director for a state hospital for the developmentally disabled shall be a person who is a physician, psychologist, registered nurse, clinical social worker, physical therapist or psychiatric technician, and licensed as such pursuant to the Business and Professions Code, or a person who is a rehabilitation therapist, or a person who possesses a valid and unrevoked teaching credential which authorizes specialist instruction in special education in grades kindergarten through 12 or in the community college, or a person who has had at least five years of experience teaching the developmentally disabled. The clinical director for any state hospital shall be well qualified by training or experience to have proven skills in mental hospital program administration.
The hospital director shall be either the hospital administrator or the clinical director. He shall be selected based on his overall knowledge of the hospital, its programs, and its relationship to its community, and on his demonstrated abilities to administer a large facility.
The standards for the professional qualifications of a program director shall be established by the Director of Developmental Services for each patient program. The director shall not adopt any regulations which prohibit a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric technician, or clinical social worker from employment in a patient program in any professional, administrative, or technical position; provided, however, that the program director of a medical-surgical unit shall be a licensed physician.
If the program director is not a physician, a physician shall be available to assume responsibility for all those acts of diagnosis, treatment, or prescribing or ordering of drugs which may only be performed by a licensed physician.
A medical program director for a state hospital for the developmentally disabled shall be a physician who has passed, or shall pass, an examination for a license to practice medicine in California and who shall be a qualified specialist in a branch of medicine which includes diseases affecting the brain and nervous system, and the care, treatment, and habilitation of the developmentally disabled.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4489. Section 4489.
The hospital director is responsible for the overall management of the hospital. In his absence one of the other hospital officers or in the absence of both officers a program director shall be designated to perform his duties and assume his responsibilities.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4491. Section 4491.
The hospital administrator shall be responsible for preserving the peace in the hospital buildings and grounds and may arrest or cause the arrest and appearance before the nearest magistrate for examination, of all persons who attempt to commit or have committed a public offense thereon.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4492. Section 4492.
The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients, research, clinical training, and for the government of the hospital buildings and grounds. Any person who knowingly or willfully violates such rules and regulations may, upon the order of either of the hospital officers, be ejected from the buildings and premises of the hospital.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4493. Section 4493.
The hospital administrator of each state hospital may designate, in writing, as a police officer, one or more of the bona fide employees of the hospital. The hospital administrator and each such police officer have the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace officers listed in Section 830.38 of the Penal Code. Such police officers shall receive no compensation as such and the additional duties arising therefrom shall become a part of the duties of their regular positions. When and as directed by the hospital administrator, such police officers shall enforce the rules and regulations of the hospital, preserve peace and order on the premises thereof, and protect and preserve the property of the state.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4494. Section 4494.
The Director of Developmental Services may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department that is not needed for other authorized purposes, to enable such institution to establish and maintain therein a store or canteen for the sale to or for the benefit of patients of the institution of candies, cigarettes, sundries and other articles. The stores shall be conducted subject to the rules and regulations of the department and the rental, utility and service charges shall be fixed as will reimburse the institutions for the cost thereof. The stores when conducted under the direction of a hospital administrator shall be operated on a nonprofit basis but any profits derived shall be deposited in the benefit fund of each such institution as set forth in Section 4465.
Before any store is authorized or established, the Director of Developmental Services shall first determine that such facilities are not being furnished adequately by private enterprise in the community where it is proposed to locate the store, and may hold public hearings or cause surveys to be made, to determine the same.
The Director of Developmental Services may rent such space to private individuals, for the maintenance of a store or canteen at any of the said institutions upon such terms and subject to such regulations as are approved by the Department of General Services, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13109 of the Government Code. The terms imposed shall provide that the rental, utility and service charges to be paid shall be fixed so as to reimburse the institution for the cost thereof and any additional charges required to be paid shall be deposited in the benefit fund of such institution as set forth in Section 4465.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4495. Section 4495.
Wherever the term “superintendent” appears, the term shall be deemed to mean clinical director, except in Sections 4450, 4466, 4467, 4469, 7281, and 7289, where the term shall be deemed to mean hospital administrator.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4496. Section 4496.
Subject to rules and regulations adopted by the department, the hospital director may establish a sheltered workshop at a state hospital to provide patients with remunerative work performed in a setting which simulates that of industry and is performed in such a manner as to meet standards of industrial quality. The workshop shall be so operated as to provide the treatment staff with a realistic atmosphere for assessing patients’ capabilities in work settings, and to provide opportunities to strengthen and expand patient interests and aptitudes.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4497. Section 4497.
At each state hospital at which there is established a sheltered workshop, there shall be a sheltered workshop fund administered by the clinical director. The fund shall be used for the purchase of materials, for the purchase or rental of equipment needed in the manufacturing, fabricating, or assembly of products, for the payment of remuneration to patients engaged in work at the workshop, and for the payment of such other costs of the operation of the workshop as may be directed by the medical director. The clinical director may cause the raw materials, goods in process, finished products, and equipment necessary for the production thereof to be insured against any and all risks of loss, subject to the approval of the Department of General Services. The costs of such insurance shall be paid from the sheltered workshop fund.
All money received from the manufacture, fabrication, assembly, or distribution of products at any state hospital sheltered workshop shall be deposited and credited to the hospital’s sheltered workshop fund.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4498. Section 4498.
To assure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services, the department shall provide adequate in-service training programs for such state hospital treatment personnel.
Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 4499. Section 4499.
To assure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals for the developmentally disabled, the State Department of Developmental Services, to the extent necessary, shall establish in state hospitals for the developmentally disabled a course of study and training equivalent, as determined by the Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners, to the minimum requirements of an accredited program for psychiatric technicians in the state. No unlicensed psychiatric technician trainee shall be permitted to perform the duties of a licensed psychiatric technician as provided by Section 4502 of the Business and Professions Code unless such trainee performs such duties pursuant to a plan of supervision approved by the Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners as part of the equivalency trainee program. This section shall not be construed to reduce the effort presently expended by the community college system or private colleges in training psychiatric technicians.
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