(a) Sixty (60) days prior to the expiration date of a nursing home license, an application for a renewal thereof shall be submitted to the Department of Pubic Health and Social Services on a form approved by it. Upon receipt and review of the application and determination of compliance with the requirements of this Chapter and any standards, rules and regulations in force pursuant thereto, the Department of Public Health and Social Services shall renew such license for a period of one (1) year, unless it finds that there are specific and sufficient grounds for denying the application for renewal.
(b) The Department of Public Health and Social Services shall have the authority to revoke a nursing home license at any time that it finds that there has been a failure to comply with the provisions of this Chapter or any standards, rule or regulation in force pursuant thereto.

(c) If the Department of Public Health and Social Services finds that the immediate interests of the patients in a nursing home and of the general public would be best served by affording such home the opportunity to correct a condition forming the ground for revocation of, or refusal to renew, a nursing home license, it may afford such opportunity. For such purpose, it may suspend or refuse to renew a nursing home license and issue a provisional license which shall be valid for such period as the Department of Public Health and Social Services may fix, but in no case to exceed ninety (90) days. No provisional license shall be renewed. A provisional license shall be replaced by a restored or renewed license only if, within the period for which the provisional license is effective, the licensee has fully corrected all conditions constituting failure to comply with the provisions of this Chapter and any standard, rule or regulation in force pursuant thereto.

SOURCE: GC § 9955.5.