Mid-Columbia Center for Living says it will be refocusing its crisis response from emergency department behavioral health response to community response over the next two months.  Center For Living executive director Al Barton says the change is occurring because of changes the Oregon Health Authority has made to the rules that govern Community Mental Health Programs.  Under the new rules, those programs must provide two-person mobile crisis response teams available 24/7 to respond to behavioral health crises in the community.  The two-person teams are supposed to provide more robust support for people in crisis while increasing the safety of responders and reducing the need for law enforcement involvement in non-violent situations.  Hospitals will continue to be responsible to provide behavioral health treatment in hospital emergency rooms but will need to provide their own staff to perform behavioral health assessments and discharge planning.  Barton says for individuals who are admitted to the emergency rooms, they plan to partner with hospitals to transition crisis evaluations, support, and safety planning to professionals employed by the hospitals.