Can you clarify if the consumer needs to have experienced a behavioral health crisis within 72 hours or if they need to have had contact with Mobile Crisis Response services within 72 hours.

Individuals must meet all of the following criteria:

1. The individual has experienced a recent behavioral health crisis (within 72 hours of admission) or the individual is transitioning from a higher level of care and requires short-term support with identifying and/or engaging in the services necessary to maintain safety and stability in the community;

• This reads that they only need to demonstrate that they have experienced a behavioral health crisis, however earlier in the drafts it states that they need to have had contact with mobile crisis response.

Also the draft states that an intervention with Emergency Services for pre-admission screening to acute hospitalization is considered a mobile crisis response.

• Mobile Crisis  Response is also the mechanism by which pre-admission screenings for
  hospitalization may be performed by DBHDS pre-admission screening  clinicians, when clinically necessary

In those cases do the calls/referral to community stabilization need to come from the regional call center, or can the local emergency services make the referral to the community crisis stabilization program and it meet the requirement for admission to the crisis stabilization program.