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Senators press CDPH on regulation and enforcement of psychiatric facilities after reporting of deaths and abuse
Summary
The Center for Healthcare Quality outlined licensing, inspection and enforcement work; senators pressed the center on weak regulations, low penalty levels and the need for stronger oversight of for-profit psychiatric facilities after reporting of patient deaths.
The Center for Healthcare Quality (CHCQ) told the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on March 10 that its work includes licensing and inspection of more than 15,000 health care facilities across 30 license categories and that the center has made progress reducing complaint backlogs.
CHCQ officials described improvements in complaint timeliness and application processing, and outlined staffing and technology investments to modernize licensing and complaint-handling systems. The center said it completed 96% of long-term care…
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