Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 30 - KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Article 60 - LICENSING OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS
Section 30-60-40 - Personnel

Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 30-60-40

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024

(a) Each licensee shall vest the following duties in an executive director, to be appointed by and responsible to the governing board of a center, or as provided for in the bylaws or other policies and procedures of an affiliated provider:

(1) Responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the licensee;

(2) assurance of the quality of the services provided; and

(3) the effective and efficient management of the licensee's resources.

(b) The medical responsibility for any consumer to whom the licensee provides services shall be vested in a licensed physician. If the physician is not a psychiatrist, then a psychiatric consultant shall be made available to this physician and to other staff assigned to work with that consumer on a continuing and regularly scheduled basis.

(c) Each licensee shall provide its services using appropriately trained or professionally qualified staff. Each licensee shall ensure that it retains the services of sufficient staff to appropriately meet the needs of those consumers to whom the licensee is providing any services. All treatment shall be provided by, or provided under the direction or supervision of, professionally qualified staff.

(d) Each licensee shall ensure that its professional staff meets any applicable state licensing, registration, or certification requirements and has completed any training program that may be required by the division within the contract, if any, in accordance with K.A.R. 30-61-5, that the department has with the center or with the center with which the licensee is affiliated.

(e) Each licensee shall ensure that any staff providing any community-based services outside of the offices of the licensee have completed, or will have completed within six months, a community services training program approved by the division.

(f) Each licensee shall insure that any volunteers or students providing any services to any person are screened, trained, and regularly supervised in accordance with written policies and procedures, which shall meet the following criteria:

(1) Govern the scope and extent of volunteer or student participation in any treatment being provided; and

(2) require training that shall include a review of the center's policies and procedures regarding confidentiality and consumer rights.

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