Ability to Notify Specific Person when Specific Task is Marked with a custom status label

We need the ability to notify a specific person when a specific task has been marked with one of our custom status labels.

We noticed the ability to do this through a workaround, by creating an additional status column that, if marked a certain way, would result in a notify message to be sent. However, we want something that doesn’t require loop arounds, but does it automatically for specific items we would designate.