2005 California Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 14520-14522 Article 1. General Provisions

14520.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Adult
Day Health Medi-Cal Law.
14521.  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter
to establish adult day health care as a Medi-Cal benefit and allow
persons eligible to receive the benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing
with Section 14000) of this part, and who have medical or psychiatric
impairments, to receive adult day health care services.  It is the
intent of the Legislature in authorizing this Medi-Cal benefit to
establish and continue a community-based system of quality day health
services which will (1) ensure that elderly persons not be
institutionalized prematurely and inappropriately, (2) provide
appropriate health and social services designed to maintain elderly
persons in their own homes, (3) establish adult  day health centers
in locations easily accessible to the economically disadvantaged
elderly person , and (4) encourage the establishment of rural
alternative adult day health care centers which are designed to make
adult day health care accessible to impaired Californians living in
rural areas.
14522.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions
contained in Part 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part and
in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1570) of Division 2 of the
Health and Safety Code shall govern the construction of this chapter.