A provider may share space with another licensed health facility, community care facility, senior center, or other appropriate structure, upon the approval of the department, based upon a determination of all of the following:

(a)  The use of the shared space does not jeopardize the welfare of the participant or other clients.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1578

  • Adult day health care: means an organized day program of therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services provided pursuant to this chapter to elderly persons or adults with disabilities with functional impairments, either physical or mental, for the purpose of restoring or maintaining optimal capacity for self-care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
  • adult day health care center: means a licensed facility that provides adult day health care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20

(b)  The shared use does not exceed occupancy capacity established for fire safety.

(c)  The space used by the adult day health care center is not essential to meet the other program’s licensing requirements.

(d)  Each entity schedules services and activities at separate times. This subdivision shall not apply to space used for meals or for space used by another licensed adult day services program.

For purposes of this section, “shared space” means the mutual use of exits and entrances, offices, hallways, bathrooms, treatment rooms, and dining rooms by an adult day health care center and another program.

(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 681, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 2002.)