The conditions include a provision that the hospital be maintained through the end of 2012, no matter what happens regarding seismic retrofitting requirements by the state.
Among the conditions:
24-hour emergency services with 12 beds as currently licensed;
Psychiatric services for “involuntary” patients with a minimum of 18 beds as currently licensed;
Intensive care services with four beds (less than the hospital now has).
Other requirements:
A minimum $5 million investment in capital improvements and equipment over three years, with annual reports to the attorney general’s office detailing the expenditures;
$1.8 million to be transferred by July 31 to the Irvine Health Foundation to establish a fund for cancer and cancer related services to the hospital’s service area;
All remaining restricted funds in the now-dissolved South Coast Medical Center Foundation will be transferred by July 31 to the Irvine Health Foundation to be used at the Laguna Beach hospital;
For five years after the purchase, Mission is required to provide community benefit services at the hospital at an annual cost of $418,400, and if that amount is not spent, the amount left over will be donated to the Laguna Beach Community Clinic.
Mission Hospital officials have not yet made a decision on whether to accept the conditions.
The documents can be found on the attorney general’s website, //ag.ca.gov/charities.
