As used in this chapter, “officers” of a state hospital means:

State Hospitals to be an officer.

and deemed by the Director of State Hospitals to be an officer.

The Director of State Hospitals shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests from the various hospitals.

Salaries of resident and other officers and wages of employees shall be included in the budget estimates of, and paid in the same manner as other expenses of, the state hospitals.

The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients with mental health disorders. The efforts and direction of the officers and employees of each state hospital shall be directed to this end.

The hospital director is the chief executive officer of the hospital and is responsible for all hospital operations.

The hospital director is responsible for the overall management of the hospital. In the hospital director’s absence, one of the other hospital officers, or in the absence of the other hospital officers, a program director, or other hospital representative shall be designated to perform the hospital director’s duties and assume the hospital director’s responsibilities.

The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients, research, clinical training, and for the government of the hospital buildings and grounds. Any person who knowingly or willfully violates such rules and regulations may, upon the order of either of the hospital officers, be ejected from the buildings and premises of the hospital.

The chief of police services, supervising investigators, investigators, and each hospital police officer have the powers and authority conferred by law upon each respectively as set forth in subdivision (v) of Section 830.3 and Section 830.38 of the Penal Code. When and as directed by the hospital director, the chief of police

services, supervising investigators, investigators, and hospital police officers shall enforce the rules and regulations of the hospital, preserve peace and order on the premises thereof, protect and preserve the property of the state, and help ensure integration of treatment, safety, and security.

proposed to locate the store, and may hold public hearings or cause surveys to be made, to determine the same.

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“employees” within the meaning of Sections 18526 and 18529 of the Government Code and Sections 1182.12, 1191.5, and 2750 of the Labor Code.

At each state hospital at which there is established a sheltered workshop, there shall be a sheltered workshop fund administered by the clinical director. The fund shall be used for the purchase of materials, for the purchase or rental of equipment needed in the manufacturing, fabricating, or assembly of products, for the payment of remuneration to patients engaged in work at the workshop, and for the payment of such other costs of the operation of the workshop as may be directed by the medical director. The clinical director may cause the raw materials, goods in process, finished products, and equipment necessary for the production thereof to be insured against any and all risks of loss, subject to the approval of the Department of General Services. The costs of such insurance shall be paid from the sheltered workshop fund.

All money received from the manufacture, fabrication, assembly, or distribution of products at any state hospital sheltered workshop shall be deposited and credited to the hospital’s sheltered workshop fund.

The hospital director, subject to rules and regulations adopted by the department, may in addition to establishing a sheltered workshop, provide other vocational rehabilitation programs for state hospital patients. Notwithstanding any payment schedule approved by the department, state hospital patients who participate in a vocational rehabilitation program established under this section are not “employees” within the meaning of Sections 18526 and 18529 of the Government Code and Sections 1182.12, 1191.5, and 2750 of the Labor Code.

Each state hospital shall, prior to the discharge of any patient who was placed in the facility under a county Short-Doyle plan, prepare a written recommended aftercare plan which shall be transmitted to the local director of mental health services in the county of the patient’s placement.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such aftercare plan shall specify the following:

To ensure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals, the department shall provide adequate in-service training programs for such state hospital treatment personnel.