Your health system, health plan, laboratory system, etc., may have multiple entities or facilities that are licensed separately by the State of California but belong to a single parent company. If you have identified an individual at your organization that is authorized to sign on behalf of more than one entity or facility, the authorized person to sign the DSA can list these organizations in the signing portal and on the DSA as “subordinate organizations”. This will allow the authorized person to sign one DSA on behalf of a number of organizations within one organization.

Subordinate organizations may be part of the same physical facility. For example, a general acute care hospital may have a licensed clinical laboratory within the hospital. In this case, if one person is authorized to sign on behalf of both the general acute care hospital and the clinical laboratory, the general acute care hospital and the clinical laboratory could both be listed as “subordinate organizations.”