This regulation establishes additional organizational standards for private psychiatric hospitals in Kansas, requiring each hospital to maintain a governing body with overall operational responsibility, a chief executive officer, and an organized professional staff accountable for clinical care quality. Hospitals must also prepare an annual budget, maintain adequate personnel policies, provide staff development programs, and make library services available to staff.
View official sourceKansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 22.—Licensing of Psychiatric Hospitals; Funding of Community Mental Health Centers and Facilities for the Mentally Retarded and Facilities for Handicapped Persons 30-22-3a. Private psychiatric hospitals; additional organizational standards. Each hospital shall: (a) Have a governing body that has overall responsibility for the operation of the hospital; (b) have a chief executive officer appointed by its governing body who shall be responsible for the overall administration of the hospital; (c) have a single, organized professional staff that has the overall responsibility for the quality of all clinical care provided to patients and for the professional practices of its members, as well as for accounting therefor to the governing body. The manner in which the professional staff is organized shall be consistent with the hospital's documented staff organization and bylaws, policies, and the setting in which the services are provided. The professional staff bylaws, rules and regulations shall require, unless otherwise provided by law, that a licensed physician be responsible for diagnosis and all medical care and treatment. The organization of the professional staff, and its bylaws, rules and regulations, shall be approved by the governing body; (d) prepare a written, annual budget which includes a statement of expected revenues and expenses and an integrated statement of the hospital's progress plan; (e) have personnel policies which promote its objectives and provide qualified personnel during all hours of operation in numbers which are adequate to support the functions of the hospital and to provide quality care; (f) provide staff development programs for administrative, professional, and support staff; and (g) make library services available to meet the professional and technical needs of the facility's staff. (Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 75-3307b , effective May 1, 1985.) ***** Authenticated Kansas Administrative Regulation *****