LRB-1355/P1
TJD:amn
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Lessner, BB0454 - Bed tracker system
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Mental illness and developmental disabilities
Bed tracking system
Currently, DHS is required to award a grant to the entity that collects data on hospitals for the purpose of developing and operating a system to show the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds. To receive the grant, the entity must use a secure Internet site to allow reporting of and access to information on the availability and location of psychiatric beds by hospitals and inpatient units. This bill expands the system to include reporting of availability of peer run respite and crisis stabilization beds by facilities, centers, and programs and expands access to the system to county departments and any other entity that is involved in identifying placement options. The bill also increases the amount of the grant awarded in each fiscal year.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.435 (2) (cm) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (2) (cm) (title) Grant program;
inpatient psychiatric mental health
beds.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 51.045 of the statutes is amended to read:
51.045 Availability of inpatient psychiatric and other beds. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (2) (cm), the department shall award a grant in the amount of $80,000 $100,000 in fiscal year 2015-16 2021-22 and $30,000 $50,000 in each fiscal year thereafter to the entity under contract under s. 153.05 (2m) (a) to develop and operate an Internet site and system to show the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, peer run respite beds, and crisis stabilization beds statewide. To receive the grant, the entity shall use a password protected Internet site to allow an inpatient psychiatric unit or hospital or a facility, center, or program that has inpatient psychiatric, peer run respite, or crisis stabilization beds to enter all of the following information and to enable any hospital emergency department
, county department, or other entity involved in identifying placement options in the state to view all of the following information reported to the system:
(1) The number of available child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric inpatient psychiatric beds, as applicable, that are inpatient psychiatric, peer run respite, or crisis stabilization beds and that are currently available at the hospital, unit, facility, center, or program at the time of reporting by the hospital or unit.
(2) Any special information that the hospital
or, unit, facility, center, or program reports regarding the available beds under sub. (1).
(3) The date the hospital or
, unit, facility, center, or program reports the information under subs. (1) and (2).
(4) The location of the hospital or, unit, facility, center, or program that is reporting.
(5) The contact information for admission coordination for the hospital or, unit, facility, center, or program.
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