Utah Code Title 26B. Utah Health and Human Services Codes § 26B-5-609. Department and division duties--MCOT license creation

(a) “Committee” means the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Committee created in Section 63C-18-202.

(b) “Emergency medical service personnel” means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-101.

(c) “Emergency medical services” means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-101.

(d) “MCOT certification” means the certification created in this part for MCOT personnel and mental health crisis outreach services.

(e) “MCOT personnel” means a licensed mental health therapist or other mental health professional, as determined by the division, who is a part of a mobile crisis outreach team.

(f) “Mental health crisis” means a mental health condition that manifests itself by symptoms of sufficient severity that a prudent layperson who possesses an average knowledge of mental health issues could reasonably expect the absence of immediate attention or intervention to result in:

(h) “Mental health therapist” means the same as that term is defined in Section 58-60-102.

(i) “Mobile crisis outreach team” or “MCOT” means a mobile team of medical and mental health professionals that provides mental health crisis services and, based on the individual circumstances of each case, coordinates with local law enforcement, emergency medical service personnel, and other appropriate state or local resources.

(a) the standards the division establishes under Subsection (3); and

(b) guidelines for:

(3)(a) The division shall:

(b) The division shall take the action described in Subsection (3)(a) with recommendations from the committee.

(c) The division may delegate the MCOT plan requirement described in Subsection (3)(a)(ii) to a contractor with which the division contracts to provide mental health crisis services.