1. A. Each State hospital and each private psychiatric hospital, when possible, shall complete an inpatient tracking form for each hospitalized child and report to a designated Department as follows:

   1. (1) Within 24 hours after the first business day following the admission of a hospitalized child, the hospital staff shall complete and transmit the inpatient tracking form to the designated Department; and
   2. (2) The hospital staff shall update the inpatient tracking forms every 2 weeks and transmit the forms to the designated Department.
2. B. The case service coordinator shall maintain the tracking forms and any data reports generated from the forms. The case service coordinator shall forward data reports generated from the forms to all Departments.

Authority: Article 41, §§6-101 and 6-104; Article 83C, §§2-102, 2-104, and 2-113; Article 88A, §3; Education Article, §§8-301—8-303 and 8-401—8-417; Health-General Article, §§2-102, 2-104, 2-105, 4-305, 4-307, 7-401, 7-1007, 10-204, 10-207, 10-712, 10-1203, and 15-102.1; Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: July 31, 1995 (22:15 Md. R. 1117)

COMAR 01.04.03 revised and recodified to COMAR 14.31.03 as an emergency provision effective June 30, 2005 (32:15 Md. R. 1314); recodified permanently effective November 28, 2005 (32:23 Md. R. 1828)

Regulation .02 amended as an emergency provision effective June 30, 2005 (32:15 Md. R. 1314); amended permanently effective November 24, 2005 (32:23 Md. R. 1828)