(a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall collect and publish annually quantitative information concerning the operation of this division including the number of persons admitted for 72-hour evaluation and treatment, 14-day and 30-day periods of intensive treatment, and 180-day postcertification intensive treatment, the number of persons transferred to mental health facilities pursuant to Section 4011.6 of the Penal Code, the number of persons for whom temporary conservatorships are established, and the number of persons for whom conservatorships are established in each county.
(b) Each local mental health director, and each facility providing services to persons pursuant to this division, shall provide the department, upon its request, with any information, records, and reports which the department deems necessary for the purposes of this section. The department shall not have access to any patient name identifiers.
(c) Information published pursuant to this section shall not contain patient name identifiers and shall contain statistical data only.
(d) The department shall make the reports available to medical, legal, and other professional groups involved in the implementation of this division.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 34, Sec. 102. (SB 1009) Effective June 27, 2012.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018