California Health and Safety Code

§ 1250.8

HSC § 1250.8 Effective Jan 1, 2009Div. 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.

(b)The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:

(1)There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 179, Sec. 136. Effective January 1, 2009.