Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 19, September 20, 2024
A. The program director shall ensure that
staff and consultants perform only those duties for which the staff and
consultants have the appropriate credentials and competencies according to the
provisions of this regulation.
B.
Staff Credentials. The program director shall ensure that the program has in
effect a process for reviewing credentials that requires the program to
collect, verify, review, and document the following information:
(1) Education;
(2) If required, primary source verification
of licenses or certification under Health Occupations Article, Annotated Code
of Maryland, to practice a health occupation; and
(3) Documentation of professional liability
insurance that is carried either individually or through the program.
C. Staff Competencies. The program
director, in consultation, if appropriate, with the medical director, clinical
director, or program psychiatrist, shall develop and implement:
(1) A process by which the program reviews
and evaluates:
(a) Education, credentials, and
additional training;
(b) Relevant
work experience, including experience with populations served by the program,
including but not limited to:
(i) Adults with
serious and persistent mental illness;
(ii) Children and adolescents with serious
emotional disturbance; and
(iii)
Elderly individuals with mental illness; and
(c) Competencies required to perform the
services rendered;
(2) A
system to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke privileges to perform specific
services; and
(3) Methods for
periodic review of credentials and competencies.
D. Staff Criminal Conduct.
(1) If a staff member is charged with a crime
that involves abuse of an individual, or individuals served by the program, the
governing body, board of directors, or advisory committee, whichever applies,
shall have a process to determine, without the participation of the staff
member in interest, whether the staff member can continue to provide
services.
(2) If the governing
body, board of directors, or advisory committee, whichever applies, determines
that the staff member may continue to provide services, the governing body,
board of directors, or advisory committee, whichever applies, shall determine
the capacity in which the staff member may continue to provide services until
the charges are resolved.
