California Health and Safety Code

§ 1339.40

HSC § 1339.40 Effective Jan 1, 2014Div. 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 10.6

Statute text

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(a)“Bereavement services” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1746.

(b)“Hospice care” means a specialized form of interdisciplinary health care that is designed to provide palliative care, alleviate the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual discomforts of an individual who is experiencing the last phases of life due to the existence of a terminal disease, and provide supportive care to the primary caregiver and the family of the hospice patient, and that meets all of the following criteria:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 289, Sec. 1. (SB 816) Effective January 1, 2014.