4265 Department of Public Health
Program Descriptions

30 - LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION

Health Facilities: This program regulates the quality of care in approximately 7,000 public and private health facilities, clinics, agencies throughout the state, licenses Nursing Home Administrators, and certifies Nurse Assistants, Home Health Aides, Hemodialysis Technicians, and other direct care staff.

Laboratory Field Services: This program regulates quality standards in approximately 19,000 clinical laboratories, public health laboratories, blood banks and tissue banks in California and licenses 30 different categories of laboratory personnel including laboratory scientists, phlebotomists, genetic scientists and clinical chemists.