When appropriate, the service shall refer or transfer the resident to the private or public alcoholism program which best meets the needs of the resident and which is available and able to accept the resident. Consideration shall be given, in each case, to referrals to outpatient facilities; day treatment facilities; Alcoholics Anonymous; indigenous self-help services; residential facilities for alcoholics including recovery houses, quarter-way houses, and halfway houses; and other alcoholic self-help counseling services. Personnel of the facility providing the 72-hour service shall communicate with any individual or agency to which the resident is being referred or transferred at or prior to the time of the referral or transfer.