2018 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 5 - COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
PART 1 - THE LANTERMAN-PETRIS-SHORT ACT
CHAPTER 5 - Housing Conservatorship for Persons with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
Section 5452.

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Frequent detention for evaluation and treatment” means eight or more detentions for evaluation and treatment in the preceding 12 months.

(b) “Evaluation” consists of multidisciplinary professional analyses of an individual’s medical, psychological, educational, social, financial, and legal conditions as they may appear to constitute a problem. Persons providing evaluation services shall be properly qualified professionals and may be full-time employees of an agency providing face-to-face, which includes telehealth, evaluation services or may be part-time employees or may be employed on a contractual basis.

(c) “Intensive treatment” consists of such hospital and other services as may be indicated. Intensive treatment shall be provided by properly qualified professionals and carried out in facilities qualifying for reimbursement under the Medi-Cal program as set forth in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9, or under the federal Medicare Program as set forth in Title XVIII (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1395 et seq.) of the federal Social Security Act and regulations thereunder. Intensive treatment may be provided in hospitals of the United States government by properly qualified professionals. This chapter does not prohibit an intensive treatment facility from also providing 72-hour evaluation and treatment.

(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 845, Sec. 1. (SB 1045) Effective January 1, 2019. Repealed as of January 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 5466.)