Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, inspect, and regulate skilled nursing facilities, and prohibits a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state from operating, establishing, managing, conducting, or maintaining a skilled nursing facility in this state, without first obtaining a license from the department. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a temporary provisional license for a skilled nursing facility. Existing law requires a licensee for a skilled nursing facility to provide written notice of a proposed change in licensee or management company to all residents of the facility and their representatives at least 90 days prior to a finalization of the sale, transfer of operation, or other change or transfer of ownership interests, except as
specified. Existing law imposes criminal penalties on a person who violates the licensing and regulatory requirements imposed on skilled nursing facilities.
This bill would specifically prohibit a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state from operating, establishing, managing, conducting, or maintaining a skilled nursing facility in this state, without obtaining a license on its own behalf and would further prohibit in any way using a license issued to another person or entity. The bill would prohibit the department, on and after January 1, 2022, from issuing a provisional license for a skilled nursing facility.