K.A.R. 30-22-3d

Article 22 — Licensing of Psychiatric Hospitals; Funding of Community Mental Health Centers and Facilities for the Mentally Retarded and Facilities for Handicapped Persons: 30-22-3d Private psychiatric hospitals; additional services.

This regulation specifies the additional services that private psychiatric hospitals in Kansas must provide or arrange. All hospitals must offer dietetic, pastoral, pathology/laboratory, pharmaceutical, and radiology services as applicable. Inpatient, residential, and partial-day facilities within private psychiatric hospitals must additionally provide or arrange activity, educational, speech-language/hearing, and vocational counseling services for patients.

Kansas 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

30-22-3d. Private psychiatric hospitals; additional services.

(a) Each hospital shall provide the following services except as noted:

(1) Dietetic services, if a hospital provides 24-hour care, has therapeutic goals related to the nutritional needs of patients, or has patients otherwise requiring such services;

(2) pastoral services, in accordance with the needs of its patients;

(3) pathology and laboratory services, in accordance with the needs of the patients, the size of the facility, the services offered, and the resources available in the community;

(4) pharmaceutical services provided by the hospital or by agreement; and

(5) radiology services provided by the hospital or by agreement.

(b) In addition to the services listed in subsection (a), inpatient, residential and partial-day facilities shall directly provide or make arrangements for the following services:

(1) Activity services to meet the physical, social, cultural, recreational, health maintenance, and rehabilitation needs of patients;

(2) educational services to meet patient needs for special education, patient needs related to learning difficulties resulting from either physical or emotional aspects of their mental illness, and patient needs for pre-vocational or vocational education necessary for re-integration into the community after treatment;

(3) speech-language, and hearing services to provide assessments of speech, language, or hearing when indicated and to provide counseling, treatment, and rehabilitation when needed; and

(4) counseling services concerning specific vocational needs.

(Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 
75-3307b
; effective May 1, 1985.)

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