Page 3, #3 – In a recent OL training session on Licensing Regulations/Final DOJ Regs/October 2020, it was clarified that if 911 is called and EMTs recommend transport to the ER, but the individual or SDM declines to go to the ER, UC, or to see a physician, then the incident is not a Level II and a CHRIS report is not required.  We request that this clarification be added to the guidance document. 

This is general comment indirectly related to this guidance document.  There are two sides of CHRIS – a Licensing side and a Human Rights side.  Sometimes a report is required on the OL side, sometimes on the OHR side, and sometimes the same report must be entered separately in both sides of CHRIS.  OL has issued this guidance document and conducts almost-monthly on-line training sessions (that historically and routinely have technical difficulties prohibiting full provider participation).  OHR has no guidance document and conducts periodic in-person regional trainings (or did prior to the pandemic).  Requests:

• OL and OHR work to reprogram CHRIS so that no incident must be entered twice but is visible on both sides when a selection is made for that option.
• OL and OHR collaborate to produce one guidance document which defines requirements for both sides of CHRIS and addresses requirements for reporting in each and in both sides.
• OL and OHR collaborate to produce joint trainings to cover reporting on both sides of CHRIS.
• DBHDS resolve the technical difficulties that have plagued on-line CHRIS trainings for many months without resolution, and which routinely impact other DBHDS staff’s on-line trainings and presentations as well.  Note that OL recently changed to a Zoom platform for its latest CHRIS training, but technical difficulties arose then too.