Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 49, December 6, 2024
Section 863 - Definitions(a) The "Patients' Rights Specialist" means the person in the Headquarters Office of the Department of Health delegated the responsibility for ensuring that mentally and developmentally disabled persons in facilities providing mental health services or residential care are afforded their statutory and constitutional rights.(b) The "Patients' Advocate" means the person in a local mental health program delegated the responsibility for ensuring that mentally disabled persons in facilities specified in Section 860 are afforded their statutory and constitutional rights.(c) The "Residents' Advocate" means the person in a regional center program delegated the responsibility for ensuring that developmentally disabled residents in facilities specified in Section 860 are afforded their statutory and constitutional rights.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 9, § 863