California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14110.15

WIC § 14110.15 Effective Jun 27, 2012Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 7 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)The department shall develop, collect, and maintain, in an electronic format, all data elements in the minimum data set specified by the federal government. The data base shall incorporate the data required for preadmission screening and annual resident reviews, and Medi-Cal treatment authorization requests. The department shall make the format of this new data base available to the public.

(b)All skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities required by federal law to complete the minimum data set form shall provide the data to the department in a manner and form prescribed by the director. The director may require that the submission of that data shall be in an electronic format.

(c)The department shall design the minimum data set data base in a manner that maintains resident confidentiality and that allows the use of the data by other authorized state agencies, including, but not limited to, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. To the extent possible, those other state agencies shall obtain the minimum data set and preadmission screening and annual resident review data from the department’s database established and maintained pursuant to this section.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 34, Sec. 227. (SB 1009) Effective June 27, 2012. Operative July 1, 2012, by Sec. 254 of Ch. 34.