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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Ch. 487
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(9) commercial insurers:
(10) On Our Own of Maryland, Inc.:
(11) National Alliance of Mental
Illness;
(12) the Community Behavioral
Health Association of Maryland;
(13) the Maryland Association of Core
Service Agencies;
(14) the Maryland Disability Law
Center; and
(15) any other representative the
Secretary considers necessary to
carry out the purpose of the task
force.
The plan shall include a statewide mental
health needs assessment of the demand
for:
(1) inpatient hospital psychiatric
services (in State-run psychiatric.
private psychiatric and acute
general hospitals); and
(2) community-based services and
programs needed to prevent or
divert patients from requiring
inpatient mental health services.
including services provided in
hospital emergency departments.
The task force shall, to the extent feasible
and desirable, coordinate with the work of
the Transformation Grant project in the
Mental Hygiene Administration. To the
maximum extent possible, expenditures
incurred in the development of the task
force's plan shall be funded by the federal
Transformation Grant,
The commission and task force shall report
their findings and recommendations to
the General Assembly by November 1,
2007. The budget committees shall have
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