What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) recently released an advisory guide for new construction of acute psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing units provided within general acute care hospitals, and special treatment programs within skilled-nursing facilities — and remodeling or alterations to existing structures of this kind.
What else to know: The advisory guide includes new structural requirements; basic and supplemental services; and mechanical, engineering, and plumbing requirements.
Contact Trina Gonzalez, vice president, policy, at tgonzalez@calhospital.org with any questions.
