Continuing care retirement facilities: transfers of residents.

Existing law requires a continuing care retirement facility, as defined, to possess a certificate of authority issued by the State Department of Social Services before it can enter into a continuing care contract, as defined, with a resident. Existing law requires that a continuing care contract be in writing and contain specified information. Existing law authorizes a continuing care retirement community to transfer a resident under certain circumstances, including when the resident develops a physical or mental condition that endangers the health, safety, or well-being of the resident or another person. Prior to any transfer under those provisions, existing law requires the continuing…