1. 1. Provides continuous treatment to an individual experiencing a behavioral health issue that causes the individual to:

   1. a. Have a limited or reduced ability to meet the individual’s basic physical needs;
   2. b. Suffer harm that significantly impairs the individual’s judgment, reason, behavior, or capacity to recognize reality;
   3. c. Be a danger to self;
   4. d. Be a danger to others;
   5. e. Be persistently or acutely disabled as defined in A.R.S. § 36-501; or
   6. f. Be gravely disabled; and

2. 2. Is one of the following facility types:

   1. a. Psychiatric hospitals;
   2. b. Mental health residential treatment centers;
   3. c. Secure residential treatment centers with 17 or more beds;
   4. d. Non-secure residential treatment centers with 1-16 beds;
   5. e. Non-secure residential treatment centers with 17 or more beds;
   6. f. Sub-acute facilities with 1-16 beds;
   7. g. Sub-acute facilities with 17 or more beds.

“Behavioral health inpatient facility” means a health care institution, other than Arizona State Hospital, that meets the following requirements:

Historical Note

New Section made by final rulemaking at 25 A.A.R. 3120, effective October 1, 2019 (Supp. 19-4).