SECTIONS 129700-129745 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 129700-129745

129700. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in
this article govern the construction of this chapter.

129705. "Architect" means a person who is certified and holds a
valid license under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of
Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.

129710. "Construction or alteration" includes any construction,
reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, any hospital
building.

129715. "Director" means the Director of the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development.

129720. "Engineering geologist" means a person who is validly
certified under Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 7800) of
Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.

129725. (a) (1) "Hospital building" includes any building not
specified in subdivision (b) that is used, or designed to be used,
for a health facility of a type required to be licensed pursuant to
Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (7) of subdivision (b),
hospital building includes a correctional treatment center, as
defined in subdivision (j) of Section 1250, the construction of which
was completed on or after March 7, 1973.
(b) "Hospital building" does not include any of the following:
(1) Any building where outpatient clinical services of a health
facility licensed pursuant to Section 1250 are provided that is
separated from a building in which hospital services are provided. If
any one or more outpatient clinical services in the building
provides services to inpatients, the building shall not be included
as a "hospital building" if those services provided to inpatients
represent no more than 25 percent of the total outpatient services
provided at the building. Hospitals shall maintain on an ongoing
basis, data on the patients receiving services in these buildings,
including the number of patients seen, categorized by their inpatient
or outpatient status. Hospitals shall submit this data annually to
the State Department of Health Services.
(2) Any building used, or designed to be used, for a skilled
nursing facility or intermediate care facility if the building is of
single-story, wood-frame or light steel frame construction.
(3) Any building of single-story, wood-frame or light steel frame
construction where only skilled nursing or intermediate care services
are provided if the building is separated from a building housing
other patients of the health facility receiving higher levels of
care.
(4) Any freestanding structures of a chemical dependency recovery
hospital exempted under subdivision (c) of Section 1275.2.
(5) Any building licensed to be used as an intermediate care
facility/developmentally disabled habilitative with six beds or less
and any intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled
habilitative of 7 to 15 beds that is a single-story, wood-frame or
light steel frame building.
(6) Any building subject to licensure as a correctional treatment
center, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 1250, the
construction of which was completed prior to March 7, 1973.
(7) (A) Any building that meets the definition of a correctional
treatment center, pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 1250, for
which the final design documents were completed or the construction
of which was begun prior to January 1, 1994, operated by or to be
operated by the Department of Corrections, the Department of the
Youth Authority, or by a law enforcement agency of a city, county, or
a city and county.
(B) In the case of reconstruction, alteration, or addition to, the
facilities identified in this paragraph, and paragraph (6) or any
other building subject to licensure as a general acute care hospital,
acute psychiatric hospital, correctional treatment center, or
nursing facility, as defined in subdivisions (a), (b), (j), and (k)
of Section 1250, operated or to be operated by the Department of
Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, or by a law
enforcement agency of a city, county, or city and county, only the
reconstruction, alteration, or addition, itself, and not the building
as a whole, nor any other aspect thereof, shall be required to
comply with this chapter or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.

129730. (a) Space for the following functions shall be considered
"outpatient clinical services," when provided in a freestanding
building that is separated from a hospital building where inpatient
hospital services are provided: administrative space; central sterile
supply; storage; morgue and autopsy facilities; employee dressing
rooms and lockers; janitorial and housekeeping facilities; and
laundry.
(b) The outpatient portions of the following services may also be
delivered in a freestanding building and shall be considered
"outpatient clinical services:" surgical; chronic dialysis;
psychiatry; rehabilitation; occupational therapy; physical therapy;
maternity; dentistry; and chemical dependency.
(c) Services that duplicate basic services, as defined in
subdivision (a) of Section 1250, or services that are provided as
part of a basic service, but are not required for facility licensure
may also be provided in a freestanding building.
(d) The office shall not approve any plans that propose to locate
any function listed in subdivision (a) in a freestanding building
until the State Department of Health Services certifies to the office
that it has received and approved a plan acceptable to the State
Department of Health Services that demonstrates how the health
facility will continue to provide all basic services in the event of
any emergency when the freestanding building may no longer remain
functional.
(e) Services listed in subdivisions (b) and (c) are subject to the
same 25-percent inpatient limitation described in Section 129725.

129735. "Light steel frame construction" means building
construction using bearing walls composed of light gauge steel studs
for its primary vertical support systems.

129740. "Office" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development.

129745. "Structural engineer" means a person who is validly
certified to use the title structural engineer under Chapter 7
(commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 of the Business and
Professions Code.