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Planning commission backs health-planner review for hospital master plans after contentious debate
Summary
The commission voted to recommend code changes that would require Department of Public Health review (via a contracted health planner) of certain Institutional Master Plan changes affecting inpatient services, while clarifying thresholds, submittal formats and notice periods; hospitals objected, saying the city lacks legitimate health planning authority.
The Planning Commission voted to recommend amendments to the institutional master plan section of the Planning Code that would add a Department of Public Health review by a contracted health planner for medical-institution master plans that involve changes to inpatient services, and that would clarify thresholds, update intervals and submittal formats.
Planning staff framed the change as an update to a 1976 process to address modern medical-institution issues, remove references to the defunct West Bay Health System Agency, and improve public access to institutional plans through electronic submittal and clearer thresholds (new abbreviated IMP threshold at 50,000 square feet; a higher downtown threshold of 100,000 for C3…
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