California Code of Regulations › Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services › Division 1 - Department of Mental Health › Chapter 3.5 - Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers › Article 5 - Basic Services › Section 785.30 - Pharmaceutical Service-Staff

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Mental
				  health rehabilitation centers shall retain a consulting pharmacist who devotes a
				  sufficient number of hours during a regularly scheduled visit, for the purpose of
				  coordinating, supervising and reviewing the pharmaceutical service committee, or its
				  equivalent, at least quarterly. The report shall include a log or record of time
				  spent in the mental health rehabilitation center. There shall be a written agreement
				  between the pharmacist and the mental health rehabilitation center which includes
				  duties and responsibilities of both.
(b)
				  A pharmacist shall review the drug regimen of each client at least monthly and
				  prepare appropriate reports. The review of the drug regimen of each client shall
				  include all drugs currently ordered, information concerning the client's condition
				  relating to drug therapy, medication administration records, and where appropriate,
				  physician's progress notes, nurse's notes, and laboratory test results. The
				  pharmacists shall be responsible for reporting, in writing, irregularities in the
				  dispensing and administration of drugs and other matters relating to the review of
				  the drug regimen to the mental health rehabilitation center director and director of
				  the nursing service.
1. New section
					 filed 8-21-95 as an emergency; operative 8-21-95 (Register 95, No. 34). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-17-95 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2.
					 New section refiled 2-9-96 as an emergency; operative 2-9-96 (Register 96, No. 6). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-8-96 or emergency language
					 will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. New section
					 refiled 6-10-96 as an emergency; operative 6-10-96 (Register 96, No. 24). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-8-96 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4.
					 New section refiled 10-8-96 as an emergency; operative 10-8-96 (Register 96, No.
					 41). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-5-97 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5.
					 Certificate of Compliance as to 10-8-96 order transmitted to OAL 2-5-97; disapproved
					 by OAL and order of repeal as to 10-8-96 order filed on 3-21-97 (Register 97, No.
					 12).
6. New section filed 3-21-97 as an emergency; operative 3-21-97
					 (Register 97, No. 12). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by
					 7-21-97 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
7. Certificate of Compliance as to 3-21-97 order, including
					 renumbering of former section
					 785.30 to new section
					 785.27, and renumbering and amendment of
					 former section 785.33 to new section
					 785.30, transmitted to OAL 7-21-97 and
					 filed 8-21-97 (Register 97, No. 34).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						5675
						and
						5768,
						Welfare and Institutions Code; Section
						3 of Chapter 678 of the Statutes of
						1994. Reference: Sections
						5675
						and
						5768,
						Welfare and Institutions Code.