1. A. Transitional services include:

   1. (1) Therapeutic;
   2. (2) Educational;
   3. (3) Interim residential;
   4. (4) Social; and
   5. (5) Recreational.

2. B. The lead agency shall provide transitional services when the treating physician, in consultation with the hospital treatment team and the lead agency, determines that:

   1. (1) The hospitalized child is ready for discharge and remains in the hospital; and
   2. (2) Transitional services are necessary to prevent specific clinical deterioration of the hospitalized child.
3. C. The lead agency, in consultation with the treating physician and the hospital treatment team, other departments, the child, and the child's parents if the parents are available, shall determine the specific transitional services provided to the child.

4. D. The lead agency may provide transitional services if:

   1. (1) The lead agency determines that transitional services are necessary to assist with a hospitalized child's adjustment to an aftercare placement; and
   2. (2) Resources are available.

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)