# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 21 — Behavioral Health Regulations

### Chapter 26 — Community Mental Health Programs — Residential Crisis Services

#### Regulation .02 Definitions.

*COMAR 10.21.26.02*

A. In this chapter, terms have the meanings stated in COMAR 10.21.17 and this regulation.

B. Term Defined. “Residential crisis services (RCS)” means intensive mental health and support services that are:

  (1) Provided to a child or an adult with mental illness who is experiencing or is at risk of a psychiatric crisis that would impair the individual's ability to function in the community; and

  (2) Designed to prevent a psychiatric inpatient admission, provide an alternative to psychiatric inpatient admission, shorten the length of inpatient stay, or reduce the pressure on general hospital emergency departments.