California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 5 - Licensing and Certification of Health Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Clinics, and Referral Agencies
Chapter 1 - General Acute Care Hospitals
Article 6 - Supplemental Services
Section 70589 - Radiation Therapy Service Staff

Universal Citation: 22 CA Code of Regs 70589

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) A physician shall have overall responsibility for the service. This physician shall be certified or eligible for certification in therapeutic radiology by the American Board of Radiology or be certified or eligible for certification in radiology by the American Board of Radiology and have two (2) years of additional full-time experience in radiation therapy.

(b) In remote communities where the population and number of cancer cases are insufficient to require a full-time radiation therapist, a general radiologist may provide radiation treatment of limited scope for those patients whose transportation to larger centers would be undesirable. He shall have an established mechanism to provide the consultation, physics and treatment planning support and referral availability of a radiation therapist.

(c) Other personnel who shall be available full-time, part-time or on a consultative basis, depending upon the activity of the department are:

(1) A radiological physicist who is either certified in radiological physics or in therapeutic radiological physics by the American Board of Radiology.

(2) A dosimetrist (treatment plan technologist) who is a qualified and experienced radiation therapy technologist with a minimum of one year of additional clinical training in dosimetry under the direction of an experienced dosimetrist and a physicist.

(3) A certified therapeutic radiological technologist.

(4) Appropriate support personnel including licensed nurses, where patient load requires.

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