R9-22-721. Behavioral Health Inpatient Facilities

“Behavioral health inpatient facility” means a health care institution, other than Arizona State Hospital, that meets the following requirements: 1. Provides continuous treatment to an individual experiencing a behavioral health issue that causes the individual to: a. Have a limited or reduced ability to meet the individual’s basic physical needs; b. Suffer harm that significantly impairs the individual’s judgment, reason, behavior, or capacity to recognize reality; c. Be a danger to self; d. Be a danger to others; e. Be persistently or acutely disabled as defined in A.R.S. § 36-501; or f. Be gravely disabled; and 2. Is one of the following facility types: a. Psychiatric hospitals; b. Mental health residential treatment centers; c. Secure residential treatment centers with 17 or more beds; d. Non-secure residential treatment centers with 1-16 beds; e. Non-secure residential treatment centers with 17 or more beds; f. Sub-acute facilities with 1-16 beds; g. Sub-acute facilities with 17 or more beds.