California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4070

(a) The State Department of Mental Health shall develop a quality assurance program to govern the delivery of Short-Doyle Medi-Cal services, in order to assure quality patient care based on community standards of practice. (b) The department shall issue standards and guidelines for local quality assurance activities. These standards and guidelines shall be reviewed and revised in consultation with the Conference of Local Mental Health Directors. The standards and guidelines shall be based on federal medicaid requirements. (c) The standards and guidelines developed by the department shall reflect the special problems that small rural counties have in undertaking comprehensive quality assurance systems.