Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-61-15 - Enhanced community support services

(a) Each participating community mental health center shall provide directly, or through a contractor, an affiliated center, or any other provider with which the center has an affiliation agreement, enhanced community support services in extension of the services required to be provided by K.A.R. 30-60-64, including the following:

(1) Outreach services designed to achieve the following:

(A) Identify and locate persons in the target population, particularly persons who do not often seek mental health services in traditional ways;

(B) encourage these persons to utilize the services of the center, its affiliated centers, or other affiliates; and

(C) offer special assistance to these persons, as required, in order to enable them to utilize the services of the center, its affiliated centers, or other affiliates;

(2) public education about the enhanced services that are available at the center or through its contractors, affiliated centers, or other affiliates;

(3) liaison services with any nursing facilities for mental health that are located in the center's service area or to which a person from the center's service area has been admitted, designed to facilitate the discharge of persons residing in those nursing facilities who could live in the community with the assistance and support provided by the services available through the center, its affiliated centers, or other affiliates;

(4) any services necessary to provide any treatment required to fulfill a court order for outpatient treatment that is issued by the district court of any county within the service area of the center; and

(5) attendant care services, designed as an extension of the center's basic outpatient treatment services, basic case management services for adults, basic community-based support services for children, adolescents, and their families, and basic case management services for children, adolescents and their families, required by K.A.R. 30-60-64, tailored specifically to accomplish the following:

(A) To enhance the independence of consumers in the target population;

(B) to reduce the risks for the need to be admitted to a state psychiatric hospital that are known to be associated with consumers in the target population;

(C) to facilitate the discharge of consumers in the target population who have been admitted to any state psychiatric hospital; and

(D) to otherwise assist consumers in the target population to be able to live in the community.

(b) Each center shall adopt and adhere to written policies and procedures that shall require all of the following:

(1) The services required to be provided by this regulation shall be provided by staff who are supervised by professionals who are sufficiently qualified by education and experience.

(2) The caseloads of staff members providing these services shall be monitored and managed to ensure the quality of the services provided.

(3) No consumer shall be denied access to any of these services solely on the basis of any previous unsuccessful intervention or experience.

(4) Continuity shall be maintained, whenever possible, in any relationship that might be established between a consumer and staff member that provides any services to that consumer.

(5) Appropriate staff shall be encouraged to provide the majority of their services to consumers in settings outside of the offices of the center.

(c) If a participating community mental health center elects to provide any of these enhanced community support services through any contractor, affiliated center, or other provider with which the center has an affiliation agreement, the center shall regularly monitor that contractor, center, or provider to ensure compliance with the requirements of this regulation and the quality of the services that are provided.

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Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-61-15

Authorized by K.S.A. 39-1603(r), 65-4434(f), and 75-3307b; implementing K.S.A. 39-1603, 65-4434(f), 75-3304a, and 75-3307b; effective Oct. 28, 1991; amended July 7, 2003.