Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.
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Overview
This bill requires California health care facilities and peer review bodies to report data annually on physician and surgeon terminations, staff privilege applications, grants, revocations, and suspensions. The data must be broken down by race and gender. The Civil Rights Department will then publish this aggregated and deidentified information on its website, protecting the privacy of facilities and individuals.
Key provisions
- Health care facilities and peer review bodies must submit annual reports detailing terminations, privilege applications, grants, revocations, and suspensions of physicians and surgeons.
- Reports must include data stratified by race and gender.
- The Civil Rights Department will publish the aggregated and deidentified data on its website.
- The data will be deidentified to protect privacy.
- The bill includes legislative findings to justify a limitation on public access to the data.
- Facilities can submit a single report containing all required information.
- The California Public Records Act does not apply to this data.
- The reporting requirements apply to medical residents as well.
Who is affected
- Health care facilities
- Physicians and surgeons
- Medical residents
- Civil Rights Department
- Medical Board of California
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