California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 8 - Management of Long-Term Health Care Facilities

• Section 1325.
  The Legislature finds and declares that the transfer trauma which accompanies the abrupt and involuntary transfer of patients from one nursing home to another should...
• Section 1325.5.
  (a)  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to empower the state department to take quick, effective action to protect the...
• Section 1326.
  As used in this article, “long-term health care facility” means any skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled, intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled...
• Section 1327.
  (a)  Whenever circumstances exist indicating that continued management of a long-term health care facility by the current licensee would present a substantial probability or imminent...
• Section 1327.1.
  The state department shall investigate within 30 days of receipt of a complaint alleging that circumstances permitting a petition for receivership under Section 1327 exist...
• Section 1327.2.
  In the event that the state department proceeds with a receivership petition, the state department shall hold an informational meeting in the affected community for...
• Section 1327.3.
  Subdivision (b) of Section 1327 shall not be construed to prohibit the state department from including on its list of qualified receivers a consortium of...
• Section 1327.5.
  No person shall impede the operation of a receivership created under Section 1327. There shall be an automatic stay for a 60-day period subsequent to...
• Section 1328.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the receiver shall be liable only for damages resulting from gross negligence in the operation of the facility...
• Section 1329.
  (a)  When a receiver is appointed, the licensee may, at the discretion of the court, be divested of possession and control of the facility in...
• Section 1329.5.
  (a)  A receiver may not be required to honor any lease, mortgage, or secured transaction entered into by the licensee of the facility and another...
• Section 1330.
  A monthly accounting shall be made by the receiver to the state department of all moneys received and expended by the receiver on or before...
• Section 1331.
  (a)  The receiver shall be appointed for an initial period of not more than six months. The initial six-month period may be extended for additional...
• Section 1332.
  The salary of the receiver shall be set by the court commensurate with long-term health care facility industry standards, giving due consideration to the difficulty...
• Section 1333.
  (a)  To the extent state funds are advanced for the salary of the receiver or for other expenses in connection with the receivership, as limited...
• Section 1334.
  (a)  Nothing in this article shall impair the right of the owner of a long-term health care facility to dispose of his or her property...
• Section 1335.
  The state department shall adopt regulations for the administration of this article. Nothing in this article shall impair the authority of the state department to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018