(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.
verb. 1  The definition of caught means taken hold of and prevented from leaving, or spotted in the act of doing something wrong. 2  Caught is the past tense of catch and means that someone was trapped or something that was thrown was grabbed.