§ 4309 Hospital Director Responsibilities

Welfare and Institutions Code·California

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•The hospital director is in charge of running the hospital.
•If the director is not there, another hospital leader takes over.
•If no leaders are around, someone else from the hospital steps in to do the director's job.

Example

The hospital director is sick and can't come to work.

Another leader, like a doctor in charge, will take over the director's job until they get better.

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§ 4309 Hospital Director Responsibilities

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. (Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 45. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

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California Legislature. Welfare and Institutions Code. Section 4309.

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