Indiana Administrative Code
Title 440 - DIVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION
Article 7.5 - RESIDENTIAL LIVING FACILITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS OR ADDICTIONS
Rule 1 - Definitions
Section 1-1 - Definitions
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 12-21-2-3
Affected: IC 12-7-2-40.6; IC 12-21-2-7; IC 12-23-17; IC 12-24-12-2; IC 12-24-12-10; IC 12-26; IC 16-36-1; IC 23-17; IC 30-5-5-16; 42 U.S.C. 300x-2(c)
Sec. 1.
The following definitions apply throughout this article:
(1) "Addiction" means alcoholism or addiction to:
(2) "Addiction services provider" means an organization certified by the division to provide a structured facility designed for the:
(3) "Agency" means:
(4) "Alternative family for adults (AFA) program" means a program that serves six (6) or fewer individuals who:
(5) "Apartment building" means any building or portion thereof that contains three (3) or more dwelling units and includes condominiums.
(6) "Case management" means goal oriented activities that locate, facilitate, provide access to, coordinate, or monitor the full range of basic human needs, treatment, and service resources for individual consumers. The term includes, where necessary and appropriate for the consumer, the following:
(7) "Case manager" means an individual who provides case management activities.
(8) "Community mental health center" or "CMHC" means a mental health facility that the division has certified as fulfilling the statutory and regulatory requirements to be a community mental health center.
(9) "Congregate residence" means a residential living facility that is located in any building or portion thereof that contains facilities for living, sleeping, and sanitation, and includes facilities for eating and cooking, for occupancy by other than a family.
(10) "Consumer" means an individual with a psychiatric disorder or addiction, or both.
(11) "Continuum of care" means a range of required services provided by a community mental health center or a managed care provider. The term includes the following:
(12) "Crisis intervention" means services in response to a psychiatric disorder or addiction emergency, either provided directly by the provider or made available by arrangement with a medical facility or an individual physician licensed under Indiana law.
(13) "Division" means the Indiana division of mental health and addiction or its duly authorized agent.
(14) "Dwelling unit" means a single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one (1) or more persons, including permanent provisions for:
(15) "Evacuation capability" means the ability of the occupants, residents, and staff, as a group, to evacuate the building. Evacuation capability is classified as follows:
The evacuation capability of the residents and staff is a function of both the ability of the residents to evacuate and the assistance provided by the staff. Evacuation capability in all cases is based on the time of day or night when evacuation would be most difficult, that is, sleeping residents, loss of power, severe weather, or fewer staff present.
(16) "Family" means an individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage or a group of ten (10) or fewer persons who need not be related by blood or marriage living together in a single dwelling unit.
(17) "Gatekeeper" means an agency identified in IC 12-24-12-2 or IC 12-24-12-10 that is actively involved in the evaluation and planning of treatment for an individual committed to a state institution beginning after the commitment through the planning of the individual's transition back into the community, including case management services for the individual in the community.
(18) "Householder" means the occupant owner or leaseholder of the residence used in the alternative family program.
(19) "Household member" means any person living in the same physical residence as a consumer living in a residential living facility licensed or certified under this rule.
(20) "Individualized treatment plan" means a written plan of care and intervention developed for an individual by a treatment team in collaboration with the individual and, when appropriate, the individual's family or guardian.
(21) "Legal representative" means:
(22) "Managed care provider" or "MCP" means an organization:
(23) "Psychiatric disorder" means a mental disorder or disease. The term does not include the following:
(24) "Representative payee" means a person appointed by the United States:
(25) "Resident" means an individual who is living in a residential living facility.
(26) "Residential care provider" or "RCP" means a provider of residential care that has been certified by the division as one (1) of the following:
(27) "Residential director" means an individual whose primary responsibility is to administer and operate the residential facility.
(28) "Residential living facility" means:
(29) "Residential staff" or "staff" means all individuals who the agency employs or with whom the agency contracts to provide direct services to the residents in the residential living facility.
(30) "Resident living allowance" is a sum of money paid to a consumer when that consumer's personal resources are not adequate to maintain the consumer in a therapeutic living environment.
(31) "Respite care" means temporary residential care to provide:
(32) "Semi-independent living facility" or "SILP" means a facility:
(33) "Sub-acute stabilization facility" or "SUB ACUTE" means a twenty-four (24) hour facility for the treatment of psychiatric disorders or addictions, and that is more restrictive than a supervised group living facility and less restrictive than an inpatient facility.
(34) "Supervised group living facility" or "SGL" means a residential facility that provides a therapeutic environment in a home-like setting to persons with a psychiatric disorder or addiction who need the benefits of a group living arrangement as post-psychiatric hospitalization intervention or as an alternative to hospitalization.
(35) "Therapeutic living environment" means a living environment:
(36) "Transitional residential facility" or "TRS" means a twenty-four (24) hour per day service that provides food, shelter, and other support services to individuals with a psychiatric disorder or addiction who are in need of a short term supportive residential environment.
(37) "Treatment team" minimally consists of the following: