San Francisco has a shortage of subacute skilled nursing care beds in the City, which often necessitates transferring patients from general acute care hospitals in the City to subacute skilled nursing care facilities outside of the City. Some City residents who receive subacute skilled nursing care at facilities outside of the City, and their families, face hardships associated with traveling to, and receiving care at, these facilities. As the City strives to increase the number of subacute skilled nursing care beds in San Francisco, it is necessary to understand the full scope of the need for both subacute and general skilled nursing care beds based on the number of patients who qualify for either subacute or general skilled nursing care in an acute care hospital or hospital-based skilled nursing facility and are either transferred outside of the City or remain in the City in an acute care hospital or hospital-based skilled nursing facility. Accordingly, Section 140.2 requires public and private general acute care hospitals and hospital-based skilled nursing facilities in the City to report the number of and aggregated demographic information regarding qualified subacute and general skilled nursing care patients to the Department of Public Health.
(Added by Ord. 77-22, File No. 220410, App. 5/13/2022, Eff. 6/13/2022)