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DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES 10000-18999.98›PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 11000-15771›CHAPTER 7. Basic Health Care 14000-14199.97›ARTICLE 2. Definitions 14050-14068
§ 14059
California Welfare and Institutions Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
Health care provided under this chapter may include diagnostic, preventive, corrective, and curative services and supplies essential thereto, provided by qualified medical and related personnel for conditions that cause suffering, endanger life, result in illness or infirmity, interfere with capacity for normal activity including employment, or for conditions which may develop into some significant handicap.
Medical care shall include, but is not limited to, other remedial care, not necessarily medical. Other remedial care shall include, without being limited to, treatment by prayer or healing by spiritual means in the practice of the religion of any church or religious denomination.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 21.)
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