The Department of Health Care Services has been hearing from many physicians, mental health providers, counties and stakeholders that DHCS should seek to continue the flexibility given during the pandemic to waive the requirement for written patient signatures for anti-psychotic medications.
Assemblyman Wood, Chairman of the Assembly Health Committee, and Assemblyman Stone, Chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee followed up this week with the following message about planned legislation.
The California Board of Registered Nursing recently posted an Implementation Plan for AB 890.
The Newsom Administration has released proposed budget trailer bill language.
Senator McGuire has introduced legislation on Coordinated Specialty Care that is modeled after what the American Psychiatric Association is attempting to get into law in all fifty states.
Southern California Psychiatric Society is joining CSAP
The California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) released an update of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative Efforts.
