Section 1251.3 Of Article 1. General From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
1251.3
. 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.
(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.