4265 Department of Public Health
Program Descriptions

30 - LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION

30.10 - Licensing and Certification:
This program regulates the quality of care in approximately 8,000 public and private health facilities, clinics, and agencies throughout the state; licenses Nursing Home Administrators; and certifies Nurse Assistants, Home Health Aides, Hemodialysis Technicians, and other direct care staff.

30.20 - 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 approximately 60,000 scientific classifications that include 30 different categories of laboratory personnel including laboratory scientists, phlebotomists, genetic scientists, and clinical chemists.