In order to be licensed under this subtitle, a residential crisis services program:
- A. Shall provide short-term mental health treatment and support services in a structured environment for individuals who require 24-hour supervision due to a psychiatric crisis;
B. Shall be designed to:
- (1) Prevent psychiatric inpatient admission;
- (2) Shorten the length of inpatient stay;
- (3) Effectively use general hospital emergency departments; and
- (4) Provide an alternative to psychiatric inpatient admission;
- C. Shall have staff who are on-site 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, whenever an individual is on-site receiving services;
- D. For adults, shall meet the site requirements set out in Regulation .07 of this chapter verified through an annual site inspection conducted by the CSA or LBHA; and
- E. For individuals younger than 21 years old, may offer services in an appropriately licensed therapeutic program, as appropriate.
Authority: Health-General Article, §§7.5-204, 8-402, 8-404, and 10-901, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: July 1, 2016 (43:10 Md. R. 585)
Regulation .03 amended effective February 27, 2017 (44:4 Md. R. 255)