# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 45 — Maryland Community Health Resources Commission

### Chapter 07 — Selection Criteria and Funding Priorities

#### Regulation .02 Funding Priorities.

*COMAR 10.45.07.02*

In selecting community health resources proposals to be funded under this subtitle, the Commission shall:

A. Consider geographic balance; and

B. Give priority to community health resources that:

  (1) In addition to normal business hours, operate during evening and weekend hours;

  (2) Have partnered with a hospital to establish a reverse referral program at the hospital;

  (3) Reduce the use of the hospital emergency department for nonemergency services;

  (4) Assist patients in establishing a medical home with a community health resource;

  (5) Coordinate and integrate the delivery of primary and specialty care services;

  (6) Promote the integration of mental and somatic health with federally qualified health centers or other somatic care providers;

  (7) Fund medication management or therapy services for uninsured individuals:

    (a) Whose income is up to 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines;

    (b) Who meet medical necessity criteria; and

    (c) Who are ineligible for the public mental health system;

  (8) Provide a clinical home for individuals who access hospital emergency departments for mental health services, substance abuse services, or both; and

  (9) Support the implementation of evidence-based clinical practices.