Cal. HSC § 1584.5

This is the official text of Cal. HSC § 1584.5, part of California’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health, hospitals, controlled substances, and environmental health standards.

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Official statutory text

Every adult day health care center shall, for the purpose of addressing issues that arise when an adult day health care participant is missing from the facility, develop and comply with an absentee notification plan, as part of the individual plan of care, as defined in Section 1570.7. The plan shall include and be limited to the following: a requirement that an administrator of the facility, or his or her designee, inform the participant’s authorized representative when that participant is missing from the facility and the circumstances in which an administrator of the facility, or his or her designee, shall notify local law enforcement when a participant is missing from the facility.

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