Sec. 215. Acute care bed registry grant for States
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, shall award grants to State mental health agencies to develop and administer a Web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate, and display information about available acute beds in public and private inpatient psychiatric facilities and public and private residential crisis stabilization units to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in psychiatric crisis.
An acute psychiatric bed registry funded under this section shall— include descriptive information for every public and private inpatient psychiatric facility and every public and private residential crisis stabilization unit in the State involved, including contact information for the facility or unit; provide real-time information about the number of beds available at each facility or unit and, for each available bed, the type of patient that may be admitted, the level of security provided, and any other information that may be necessary to allow for the proper identification of appropriate facilities for treatment of individuals in psychiatric crisis; and allow employees and designees of community mental health service providers, employees of inpatient psychiatric facilities or public and private residential crisis stabilization units, and health care providers working in an emergency room of a hospital or clinic or other facility rendering emergency medical care to perform searches of the registry to identify available beds that are appropriate for the treatment of individuals in psychiatric crisis.
To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2015 through 2019.