Patients' Rights Committee
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The purpose of the Patients’ Rights Committee (PRC) is to monitor, review, evaluate, and recommend improvements in the protection and
upholding of patients' rights to receive effective, timely, and humane
treatment in a public mental health system in California. Each patient should be afforded the opportunity to receive excellent mental health care or the option to decline care if appropriate.
More information on our purpose, mandates, goals, and members is contained in the
charter.
Upcoming Meetings
Quarterly Meeting
Meeting agenda to be posted no less than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Please visit the
Patients' Rights Committee Meetings Archive page for information on past meetings.
Committee Documents
Resources
California Office of Patients' Rights (COPR) - The COPR is a unit within Disability Rights California contracted through the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to provide the patients’ rights investigative and advocacy services required in W&I Code, Section 5370.2, as well as training and technical assistance to all county patients’ rights advocates.
