Coordinating Crisis Care Act

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an institution for mental diseases bed registry program. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Coordinating Crisis Care Act 2. Institution for mental diseases bed registry grant program (a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, shall award grants to States 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 beds in public and private inpatient psychiatric facilities and public and private 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. (b) Registry Requirements A bed registry described in this subsection is a registry that— (1) includes descriptive information for every public and private inpatient psychiatric facility and every public and private 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; (2) 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 (3) allows employees and designees of community mental health and substance abuse service providers, employees of inpatient psychiatric facilities or public and private crisis stabilization units and residential community mental health and 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 or substance abuse crisis. (c) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2016 through 2020.

Summary: Coordinating Crisis Care Act This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award grants to states for real-time, Internet-based bed registries that provide information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health treatment facilities, and residential substance abuse treatment facilities to facilitate the identification of space for the temporary treatment of an individual in psychiatric or substance abuse crisis. A bed registry must: (1) describe and provide contact information for every relevant facility in the state; (2) provide real-time information about the number of beds available at each facility and, for each available bed, provide the type of patient that may be admitted, the level of security provided, and any other information that may be necessary to identify an appropriate facility for an individual in crisis; and (3) allow specified users to search the registry for an appropriate and available bed for an individual in crisis.