Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. A BHS
provider shall provide the following services to its clients when needed:
1. assessment;
2. orientation;
3. treatment;
4. client education;
5. consultation with professionals;
6. counseling services;
7. referral;
8. rehabilitation services;
9. crisis mitigation; and
10. medication management.
EXCEPTION: Mental health rehabilitation providers
exclusively providing the evidence-based practice multi-systemic therapy (MST),
functional family therapy (FFT) or Homebuilders are excluded from the
requirement of
§5655. A
10.
B. A BHS
provider that is a mental health rehabilitation provider exclusively providing
the evidence-based practice multi-systemic therapy (MST), functional family
therapy (FFT) or Homebuilders shall:
1.
provide services in accordance with
§5655. A 1-9; and
a. - b. Repealed.
2. develop policies and procedures to ensure:
a. screening of clients for medication
management needs;
b. referral to
appropriate community providers for medication management including assistance
to the client/family to secure services; and
c. collaboration with the clients medication
management provider as needed for coordination of the clients care.
3. Repealed.
C. Crisis Mitigation Services
1. The BHS providers crisis mitigation plan
shall:
a. identify steps to take when a client
suffers from a medical, psychiatric, medication or relapse crisis;
and
b. specify names and telephone
numbers of staff or organizations to assist clients in crisis.
2. If the provider contracts with
another entity to provide crisis mitigation services, the BHS provider shall
have a written contract with the entity providing the crisis mitigation
services.
3. The qualified
individual, whether contracted or employed by the BHS provider, shall call the
client within 30 minutes of receiving notice of the clients call.
D. Referral
1. The provider shall provide:
a. appropriate resource information regarding
local agencies to client and family, if applicable, upon need or request;
and
b. procedures to access
vocational services, community services, transitional living services and
transportation.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
36:254 and
R.S.
40:2151-2161.
