Annual report on emergency transportation and assisted community treatment

Each provider of services involved in an emergency transportation initiated by a law enforcement officer, court order, or health care provider; assisted community treatment petition; or assisted community treatment order pursuant to part IV or VIII, and the department of the attorney general, shall provide the necessary data to the department to complete the report under this section. Based on this data, the department shall submit an annual report to the legislature no later than thirty days prior to the convening of each regular session. The report shall include, at a minimum, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the strategies employed by each provider operating pursuant to parts IV and VIII in reducing hospitalization of persons subject to emergency transportation or assisted community treatment and in reducing involvement with local law enforcement by persons subject to assisted community treatment orders. The evaluation and report shall also include any other measures identified by the department regarding individuals subject to assisted community treatment petitions and orders and all of the following, based on information that is available: (1) The number of individuals brought to each of the facilities operated by service providers through emergency transportation, and the number of those individuals transported due to enforcement of an order for assisted community treatment; (2) The number of individuals involuntarily hospitalized through emergency transportation and emergency examination; (3) The number of individuals subject to assisted community treatment orders; (4) The petitioner's relationship to the individual subject to the assisted community treatment petition; (5) The number of individuals under assisted community treatment orders who become involved with the criminal justice system by way of arrests, convictions, probation, incarceration, or other relevant data; (6) The need for hospitalization and related length of stay for individuals after they become subject to an assisted community treatment order; (7) Adherence to prescribed treatment by individuals subject to an assisted community treatment order; and (8) Other indicators of successful engagement, if any, by individuals subject to an assisted community treatment order.