Section 114 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Reporting

(a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of mental health shall post to the department's website, on a monthly basis, data on the availability of adult and pediatric beds at inpatient continuing care facilities that are under the supervision or control of the department, including those operated by or contracted by the department. Such data shall include, but not be limited to: (i) for each continuing care facility the: (A) number of operational beds; (B) number of beds that have been taken out of operation; (C) inpatient census data; (D) number of forensic patients admitted; (E) number of patients discharged; (F) number of patients who cannot be discharged from the continuing care facility to the community due to the acuity of their behavioral health diagnosis or forensic status; and (G) number of patients appropriate for discharge from continuing care but who are awaiting an available community placement; and (ii) the number of patients that have been admitted from the waitlist for continuing care placement, disaggregated by the continuing care facility that accepted the patient and by the inpatient facility the patient was accepted from. To the extent feasible, all data shall be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender identity, age and other demographic information.

(b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, not later than January 1, 2022 the department of mental health shall post to its website historic data on the previous 15 years of operational continuing care beds, per continuing care facility operated by or contracted by the department, including, but not limited to, the operational status of beds.

(c) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of mental health's continuing care referral list, also known as the inpatient referral summary, shall include data on patients in acute psychiatric facilities awaiting acceptance to continuing care facilities including, but not limited to: (i) the length of time a patient has awaited a continuing care placement, and (ii) the number of patients awaiting continuing care placement for each inpatient psychiatric facility. In calculating the amount of time a patient has been awaiting a continuing care placement, the department shall include the time between the submission of an application and the acceptance to a continuing care facility in addition to the time the patient awaited transfer after acceptance for admission.