​​​​​​​​Patients' Rights Committee

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The purpose of the Patients’ Rights Committee (PRC) is to monitor, review, evaluate, and recommend improvements in the protection and upholding of patients' rights to receive effective, timely, and humane treatment in a public mental health system in California. Each patient should be afforded the opportunity to receive excellent mental health care or the option to decline care if appropriate.

More information on our purpose, mandates, goals, and members is contained in the charter.

Upcoming Meetings

Quarterly Meeting

• Date: April 19, 2023
• Time: 10:30 am to 12:3​0 pm
• Location: Holiday Inn Downtown - Arena, 300 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814​
• Zoom Meeting Link​
  

Meeting Agenda and Materials

Please visit the Patients' Rights Committee Meetings Archive page for information on past meetings.​

Committee Documents 

• ​Patients' Rights Committee 2021 Survey Analysis​ - 2021 Survey of County Mental Health Patients’ Rights Advocates on Patients’ Rights Advocacy in County Jails​.
  
• Patients' Rights Committee 2020 Survey Analysis - Survey of local behavioral health boards/commissions on county mental health patients’ rights advocacy.
• Title 9 County Patients' Rights Advocates - An issue paper highlighting resource, training and retaliation issues in county patients' rights programs in California.

Resources

California Office of Patients' Rights (COPR) - The COPR is a unit within Disability Rights California contracted through the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to provide the patients’ rights investigative and advocacy services required in W&I Code, Section 5370.2, as well as training and technical assistance to all county patients’ rights advocates.