{"data":{"id":"us-ca/hsc-1250.05","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"HSC § 1250.05","heading":"","body":"(a) All general acute care hospitals licensed under this chapter shall maintain a medical records system, based upon current standards for medical record retrieval and storage, that organizes all medical records for each patient under a unique identifier.\n(b) This section shall not require electronic records or require that all portions of patients’ records be stored in a single location.\n(c) In addition, all general acute care hospitals shall have the ability to identify the location of all portions of a patient’s medical record that are maintained under the general acute care hospital’s license.\n(d) All general acute care hospitals, including those holding a consolidated general acute care license pursuant to Section 1250.8, shall develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that relevant portions of patients’ medical records can be made available within a reasonable period of time to respond to the request of a treating physician, other authorized medical professionals, authorized representatives of the department, or any other person authorized by law to make such a request, taking into consideration the physical location of the records and hours of operation of the facility where those records are located, as well as the best interests of the patients.","path":["Health and Safety Code - HSC","DIVISION 2. LICENSING PROVISIONS [1200. - 1796.88.]","CHAPTER 2. Health Facilities [1250. - 1339.59.]","ARTICLE 1. General [1250. - 1264.1.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"805ca388d60801f192ed6fa682b7778c21ab6c193cfb2fbb4778776b81f05e29","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/hsc-1250.03","next":"us-ca/hsc-1250.06"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}