Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0940-05-42-.28 - COMMUNITY RELATIONS

The Facility shall have policies and procedures for community relations to include the following:

(1) A Facility shall be responsible for ensuring that its service recipients do not cause unnecessary disruption to the community or act in a manner that would constitute disorderly conduct or harassment by loitering on the Facility's property.

(2) Each Facility shall provide TDMHSAS, when requested, with a specific plan describing the efforts it will make to avoid disruption of the community by its service recipients and the actions it will take to assure responsiveness to community needs. This plan shall, at a minimum:

(a) Identify Facility personnel who will function as community relations coordinators and define the goals and procedures of the community relations plan.

(b) Include policies and procedures or resolve community problems, including service recipient loitering and medication diversion, to ensure that Facility operations do not affect community life adversely.

(c) Include procedures for soliciting service recipient and community ideas about medication assisted treatment, addressing community concerns and the Facility's presence in the community.

(3) Each Facility shall document community relations efforts and community contacts, including the resolution of issues identified by community members or service recipients.

Notes

Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0940-05-42-.28

Original rule filed September 20, 2012; effective December 19, 2012.

Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-3-1601, 4-4-103, 33-1-302, 33-1-305, 33-1-309, 33-2-301, 33-2-302, and 33-2-404.