Primary Care Clinic - Affiliate
Change of Medical Director
A State license is required to operate as a Primary Care Clinic (PCC) - Affiliate in California. A PCC ā Affiliate "is a clinic corporation on behalf of a primary care clinic that has held a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license for at least the immediately preceding five years, with no demonstrated history of repeated or uncorrected violations or any regulation that pose immediate jeopardy to a patient, and that has no pending action to suspend or revoke its license may file an affiliate clinic application to establish a primary care clinic at an additional site or a mobile health care unit. The clinic corporation (parent clinic) that operates the existing licensed PCC: 1) has submitted a completed affiliate clinic application and application fee; 2) corporate officers are the same; 3) are owned and operated by the same nonprofit organization with the same board of directors; and, 4) have the same medical director or directors and medical policies, procedures, protocols, and standards.", pursuant to Health and Safety Code (HSC) section 1218.1.
A change of medical director is not required to be reported to the Department. Refer to 22 CCR Ā§ 75025, HSC Ā§ 1212(a), and HSC Ā§ 1218.3 for information regarding licensure requirements.