Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients.
Summary
Establishes intensive behavioral health treatment facilities and provides for the licensing and certification of these facilities by the Department of Health.
Establishes a pilot program for mental health drop-in centers and requires the Health Care Authority to submit reports on the results to the Governor and the appropriate committees of the Legislature by December 1, 2020, and December 1, 2021.
Directs the Health Care Authority to assess the capacity of hospitals and evaluation and treatment facilities to become credentialed to provide long-term mental health placements and to contract with those hospitals and evaluation and treatment facilities that choose to provide such services.
Suspends certificate of need requirements for certain hospitals that are either adding new psychiatric beds, changing the use of current beds to psychiatric uses, or constructing new psychiatric hospitals.
Establishes mental health peer respite centers to be credentialed by the Department of Health as peer-operated programs.
Requires the Department of Social and Health Services to track and monitor certain information about clients of the Developmental Disabilities Administration who are taken to a hospital.
From the Second Substitute House Bill Report (2SHB 1394), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗