Sec. 118. Acute care bed registry grant for States
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, shall award grants to State mental health agencies to develop and administer, or maintain an existing, real-time Internet-based bed registry described in subsection (b), to collect, aggregate, and display information about available beds in public and private inpatient psychiatric facilities and public and private residential crisis stabilization units, and residential community mental health and residential substance abuse treatment facilities to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in psychiatric or substance abuse crisis.
A bed registry described in this subsection is a registry that— includes descriptive information for every public and private inpatient psychiatric facility, every public and private residential crisis stabilization unit, and residential community mental health and residential substance abuse facility in the State involved, including contact information for the facility or unit; provides 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 or substance abuse crisis; and allows employees and designees of community mental health and substance abuse service providers, employees of inpatient psychiatric facilities, public and private residential crisis stabilization units, or residential substance abuse treatment facilities, 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 or substance abuse crisis.
To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021.