A health facility licensed as a general acute care hospital, providing alcohol recovery services, may convert its licensure category to an acute psychiatric hospital and it may reclassify all of its general acute care beds to acute psychiatric without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Section 127170 if all of the following conditions are met:

(a)  The health facility notifies, in writing, the State Department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development on or before September 3, 1982.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1251.3

  • Acute psychiatric hospital: means a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care for persons with mental health disorders or other patients referred to in Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000) or Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000) of the Welfare and Institutions Code, including the following basic services: medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy, and dietary services. See California Health and Safety Code 1250
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • general acute care hospital: includes a "rural general acute care hospital. See California Health and Safety Code 1250
  • health facility: means a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, physical or mental, including convalescence and rehabilitation and including care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of these purposes, for one or more persons, to which the persons are admitted for a 24-hour stay or longer, and includes the following types:

    California Health and Safety Code 1250

  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23

(b)  The project would reclassify all of the facility’s general acute care beds to acute psychiatric.

(c)  The total licensed capacity of the facility to be converted does not exceed 31 beds.

(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 155. Effective September 29, 1996.)

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