Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 210 - State Department of Education
Chapter 35 - Standards for Accreditation of Elementary, Middle Level, Secondary, and Career and Technology Schools
Subchapter 31 - Standards for Educational Services in Day Treatment Programs
Section 210:35-31-2 - General requirements for day treatment facilities
Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024
(a) For purposes of the standards in this Subchapter, the term "day treatment programs" shall be used as a general reference for the programs defined in the law. Partial hospitalization programs, day treatment programs and day hospital programs mean nonresidential settings/facilities in which school-age children are placed for psychiatric or psychological treatment which precludes their attendance at a regular public school. No facility as defined in the standards in this Subchapter shall be licensed pursuant to provisions of state law unless the facility meets the standards for educational services established by the State Board of Education. In order for the facility to meet the standards in this Subchapter, a contract must be in effect with an accredited school.
(b) As required by 10 O.S. Supp. 1997, 603.4, the day treatment outpatient facilities shall be monitored at least once annually by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), to ensure compliance of outpatient hospital day treatment, ambulatory behavioral health services with the standards in the MEDICAL PROVIDERS-HOSPITAL SPECIFIC MANUAL, to be promulgated as OAC 317:30-5-42 under OHCA. Any program found to be out of compliance with the OHCA standards shall be subject to cancellation of its contract with the OHCA according to rules governing contract cancellations.
Added at 12 Ok Reg 1027, eff 3-31-95 (emergency); Added at 12 Ok Reg 2785, eff 7-13-95; Amended at 15 Ok Reg 3532, eff 6-15-98 (emergency); Amended at 16 Ok Reg 1752, eff 6-11-99
