In order to be licensed under this subtitle, a mobile treatment services program shall:

1. A. Provide intensive, assertive outpatient mental health treatment and support services by a multidisciplinary team to an individual who is homeless or is otherwise unable or unwilling to access traditional outpatient treatment services as follows:

   1. (1) Flexibly in a community setting considered appropriate to the individual; and
   2. (2) On an on-call basis, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week;
2. B. Be designed to enable the individual to remain in the community, thus reducing admissions to emergency rooms, inpatient facilities, or detention facilities; and
3. C. Provide discharge services, including developing a transition plan and arranging to initiate authorized services before the planned discharge, in collaboration with the individual, the treatment team, family members, and significant others who are designated by the individual, the CSA, LBHA, ASO and the designated transition service providers.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§7.5-204, 8-402, 8-404, and 10-901, and 10-1402, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: July 1, 2016 (43:10 Md. R. 585)

Regulation .14 amended effective February 27, 2017 (44:4 Md. R. 255)

Regulation .18 amended effective February 27, 2017 (44:4 Md. R. 255)

Regulation .19J amended effective February 27, 2017 (44:4 Md. R. 255)

Regulation .20 adopted effective May 27, 2024 (51:10 Md. R. 526)

Regulation .21 adopted effective May 27, 2024 (51:10 Md. R. 526)