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1271.15
. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
including, but not limited to, Section 1271.1, a health facility may
do any of the following:
(1) (A) It may place all or a portion of its licensed bed capacity
in voluntary suspension for the purposes of using the facility to
operate a licensed mental health rehabilitation center pursuant to
Section 5675 of the Welfare and Institutions Code after submitting
written notification to the State Department of Health Services and
to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. During
the period of voluntary suspense, the facility shall remain under the
jurisdiction of the office. The office shall enforce both the mental
health rehabilitation center requirements and the health facility
requirements of the California Building Standards Code.
(B) A mental health rehabilitation center operating under this
paragraph may remove all or any portion of its voluntarily suspended
bed capacity from voluntary suspension by submitting a request to the
State Department of Health Services.
(C) The department shall grant the request under subparagraph (B)
to remove bed capacity from voluntary suspension and to reinstatement
of the health facility bed capacity, unless the facility fails to
meet currently applicable operational requirements for a health
facility.
(b) This section authorizes the voluntary suspension of bed
capacity or surrender of a license by a health facility only for the
purpose of converting the facility for use as a licensed mental
health rehabilitation center pursuant to Section 5675 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code.