HHSC: Joint Committee on Access and Forensic Services – Workgroup Recommendations

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Meeting Summary. S.B. 1507, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, directed DSHS to reconvene the advisory panel established by H.B. 3793, 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013. The charge of the advisory panel is to develop, make recommendations, and monitor the implementation of updates to a bed day allocation methodology for allocating to each designated region a certain number of state-funded beds in state hospitals and other inpatient mental health facilities for voluntary, civil, and forensic patients, and a bed day utilization review protocol that includes a peer review process. The legislation also requires the department to establish a forensic work group made up of experts and stakeholders to make recommendations for a comprehensive plan for the coordination of forensic services. Because these groups have shared members and closely related charges, the department is forming a joint committee. (Joint Committee on Access and Forensic Services: Workgroup Recommendations

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