| (a) The purpose of this chapter is to implement Health and Safety Code, Chapter 251, which requires an end stage renal disease facility providing routine, repetitive, outpatient dialysis to be licensed by the Department of State Health Services. (b) This chapter provides minimum standards for the equipment used by the facility; water treatment and reuse; sanitary and hygienic conditions; quality assessment and performance improvement; indicators of quality of care; provision and coordination of treatment and services; qualifications and supervision of the professional staff, including physicians and other personnel; clinical records; curricula and instructors used to train dialysis technicians; the competency evaluation of dialysis technicians; enforcement standards, fire prevention and safety requirements; and physical plant and construction requirements. (c) Compliance with this chapter does not constitute release from the more stringent requirements of other applicable federal, state, or local codes and ordinances. This chapter shall be followed where it is more stringent than other codes and ordinances. |
