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 785.26 - Pharmaceutical Service-Personal Medications

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Facilities
				  shall maintain a record which includes, for each drug ordered by prescription, the
				  name of the client, the drug name, and strength, the date ordered, the date and
				  amount received and the name of the issuing pharmacy. The records shall be kept at
				  least one year.
(b) Medications brought
				  by or with the client on admission to the mental health rehabilitation center shall
				  not be used unless the contents of the containers have been examined and positively
				  identified after admission by the client's physician or a pharmacist retained by the
				  mental health rehabilitation center.
(c)
				  The mental health rehabilitation center may use drugs transferred from other
				  licensed facilities or those drugs dispensed or obtained after admission from any
				  licensed or governmental pharmacy and may accept the delivery of those drugs by any
				  agency of the client or pharmacy without the necessity of identification by a
				  physician or pharmacist.
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					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.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					 will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.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					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.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					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.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
					 785.26 to new section
					 785.23, and renumbering and amendment of
					 former section 785.29 to new section
					 785.26, 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.