CA Health & Safety Code Section 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 Public Health.

(2)

A 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)

A 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)

A freestanding structure of a chemical dependency recovery hospital exempted under subdivision (c) of Section 1275.2.

(5)

A building licensed to be used as an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative with six beds or less and an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative of 7 to 15 beds that is a single-story, wood-frame, or light steel frame building.

(6)

A building subject to licensure as a correctional treatment center, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 1250, the construction of which was completed before March 7, 1973.

(7)

(A) A 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 initiated before January 1, 1994, operated by or to be operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 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 and Rehabilitation, 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.

(8)

A freestanding building used, or designed to be used, as a congregate living health facility, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 1250.

(9)

A freestanding building used, or designed to be used, as a hospice facility, as defined in subdivision (n) of Section 1250.