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  "heading": "Definitions; purposes",
  "text": "A. As used in this Part, \"intervention and stabilization unit\" means a type of crisis receiving center in which a staff of mental health and behavioral health specialists provide a high level of screening and assessment to people experiencing mental health or behavioral health crises.\n\nB. The purposes of an intervention and stabilization unit include, without limitation, all of the following:\n\n(1) To properly connect patients experiencing mental health or behavioral health crises to either acute or ongoing community-based treatment.\n\n(2) To diminish the need in a community for recurrent crisis services for persons suffering from mental illness, a substance-related or addictive disorder, or both conditions.\n\n(3) To serve as a crisis continuum component that assists law enforcement officers, hospital emergency departments, and jails by treating persons with mental health and behavioral health conditions in an appropriate setting.",
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      "number": "21",
      "name": "STATEWIDE HUMAN SERVICES DELIVERY"
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      "number": "II",
      "name": "INTERVENTION AND STABILIZATION UNITS"
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