Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 31 - Public Safety
Part 9 - REGULATION REGARDING THE LICENSURE OF JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES
Chapter 2 - Classification, Assessment, Healthcare And Data
Rule 31-9-2.14 - Medical, Mental Health, and Dental Records

1. Written policies, procedures, and actual practices ensure that access to confidential information is limited to staff with a "need to know" basis, consistent with professional rules of ethics, applicable state and federal laws. Written policies, procedures, and actual practices ensure that staff share information where appropriate to provide for safety, security, health, treatment, and continuity of care for youth.

2. Medical and mental health professionals communicate instructions to custodial staff for youth with special needs, as appropriate.

3. Staff record and treat medical, mental health, substance abuse, and dental information as confidential.

4. Medical, mental health, substance abuse, and dental records are maintained and stored separately from confinement records.

5. There is a record for each child that includes screening forms, assessment records, findings, diagnoses, treatments, prescribed medications and records of administration, lab test records, consent or refusal forms, insurance information, discharge summaries, and reports from other health providers.