1323.2.
(a) The State Department of Public Health, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Social Services, shall develop a real-time, internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and licensed residential alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in mental health or substance use disorder crisis. The database shall be operational by January 1, 2024.(b) (1) Except as described in paragraph (3), the database created pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A) The contact information for the facility’s designated employee.
(B) The facility’s license type.
(C) Whether the facility provides substance use disorder, mental health, or medical treatment.
(D) Whether the bed is secure for the treatment of a person who, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or gravely disabled, pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(E) The types of diagnoses for which the bed is appropriate.
(F) The age ranges for which the bed is appropriate.
(G) Whether the bed is available.
(2) The database created pursuant to subdivision (a) shall have the capacity to do both of the following:
(A) Collect data.
(B) Enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for the treatment of individuals in a mental health or substance use disorder crisis.
(3) The database shall not include any information relating to state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals.
(c) The department shall confer with stakeholders to inform the development of the database. Stakeholders represented in this process shall include, but not be limited to, the State Department of Health Care Services, State Department of Social Services, County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California Hospital Association, organizations representing consumers and family members, organizations that have experience providing inpatient psychiatric care, organizations that have experience providing psychiatric crisis stabilization, organizations that have experience providing residential community mental health services, and organizations that have experience providing residential alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment services. The department and stakeholders shall consider strategies for facility use of the database.