California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 5 - Licensing and Certification of Health Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Clinics, and Referral Agencies
Chapter 3 - Skilled Nursing Facilities
Article 4 - Optional Services
Section 72449 - Special Treatment Program Service Unit-Program Approval
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Annually the facility shall submit to the Department of Health Care Services a written description of its Special Treatment Program which shall meet all of the requirements of Section 72461. The facility shall also specify any alternate requirements needed to implement a special program, and shall submit other documents requested by the Department of Health Care Services.
(b) The facility shall comply with all requirements of its approved Special Treatment Program and also any approved, specific, alternate requirement which shall govern the operation of the program notwithstanding the provisions of any other regulation contained in this chapter.
1. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (a) and NOTE filed 6-10-2015 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2015, No. 24).
2. Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-55-20 (2019 CA EO 55-20), dated April 22, 2020, which suspended certain provisions related to the operation of treatment and rehabilitation facilities that could restrict staffing flexibility, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 20, 208(a) and 1275, Health and Safety Code; and Sections 10725, 14124.5 and 14700, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Section 1276, Health and Safety Code; and Sections 5909 and 14700, Welfare and Institutions Code.
