(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that funding provided to hospitals through a hospital quality assurance fee be explored with the goal of increasing access to care and stabilizing hospital rates through supplemental Medi-Cal payments to hospitals.
The noun SAFETY CATCH has 1 sense: 1. guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired. Familiarity information: SAFETY CATCH used as a noun is very rare.
Safety-valve, which diminishes the risk of explosion, is from 1797; figurative sense recorded from 1818. Safety-net in literal sense (in machinery) by 1916, later of aerial circus performances (1920s); figurative use by 1950. Safety-first as an accident-prevention slogan first recorded 1873.