10/23/2025
🚨PDHCC ALERT: NEW REGULATION THREATENS CARE FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN, ADULTS AND SENIORS 😔😢
🔴PLEASE READ ON TO LEARN HOW YOU CAN HELP!
As of October 1, 2025, the Respiratory Care Board (RCB) began enforcing CCR §1399.365, a regulation that prohibits Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) from performing many basic, life-sustaining respiratory care tasks, including:
* Suctioning – nasal, oral, or tracheostomy suctioning
* Oxygen – setup, flow adjustment, or replacement
* Tracheostomy Care – handling caps, speaking valves, cannulas, or humidifiers
* Respiratory Devices – use of ventilators, CPAP, BiPAP, and nebulizers
🔴These are the same procedures that have safely kept thousands of medically fragile children, adults, and seniors alive for decades in homes, schools, and community-based settings such as Pediatric Day Health Care (PDHC) centers, home health agencies, and skilled nursing facilities.
🔴The Pediatric Day Health Care Coalition (PDHCC) is respectfully urging the Respiratory Care Board to issue temporary, common-sense guidance while new training standards are developed.
🚨CALL TO ACTION: Here’s How You Can Help
1️⃣: Submit a Caregiver or Provider Letter: Share your story — it’s the most powerful way to show the Board what’s at stake.
📄 Complete your letter online - https://forms.gle/SqLKmMb56DJo8Gcs7
Then send it to:
📧 Governor Gavin Newsom — governor@governor.ca.gov
Respiratory Care Board — rcbinfo@dca.ca.gov
📧 Your Legislators — findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
2️⃣: Attend the Respiratory Care Board Meeting🗓 Friday, October 24, 2025 @ 9:30 AM
Agenda Item #4 — Implementation of CCR §1399.365
Share up to a 3-minute testimony urging the Board to pause enforcement, issue clarifying guidance, or initiative amendments.
🔴In-Person: Department of Consumer Affairs, Hearing Room S102 1625 North Market Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95834
🔴Virtual via WebEx: Join the Meeting HERE: Webinar No. 2494 423 7031 | Password: RCB1024📞 Phone: +1-415-655-0001 | Access Code: 2494 423 7031 | Passcode: 7221024
🚨Every seizure, every oxygen drop, every delay puts a life in danger. Please act now — before Pediatric Day Health Care programs and other licensed facilities are forced to choose between following this rule or saving a patient’s life.🚨
