K.A.R. 30-61-11

Article 61 — Participating Community Mental Health Centers: 30-61-11 Liaison services.

Each participating community mental health center must designate liaison staff who regularly visit patients admitted to state psychiatric hospitals from the center's service area, participate in discharge planning, commit the center to post-discharge services, and coordinate treatment between the hospital and the center or its affiliated providers. Liaison staff names and credentials must be communicated to the relevant state psychiatric hospital superintendent, and staff must follow all hospital rules while on campus. This regulation governs the operational obligations of participating CMHCs in relation to state psychiatric hospital admissions.

Kansas Administrative Regulations

Kansas Department for Children and Families

Article 61.—Participating Community Mental Health Centers

30-61-11. Liaison services.

(a) Each participating community mental health center shall designate staff who shall perform the following:

(1) Regularly visit at the hospital with every person admitted to a state psychiatric hospital from the service area of the center, whether on a voluntary or involuntary basis;

(2) participate in the discharge planning of each person admitted to a state psychiatric hospital from the service area of the center in order to facilitate the return of that person to the community;

(3) be empowered by the center to commit the center to specified services upon the discharge and return to the community of any person admitted to a state psychiatric hospital from the service area of the center; and

(4) coordinate the treatment provided at the state psychiatric hospital with the treatment provided by either the center or any affiliated provider with which the center has an affiliation agreement.

(b) The names and professional qualifications of liaison staff shall be communicated by the executive director of the center to the superintendent of the state psychiatric hospital to which the liaison staff is assigned.

(c) The liaison staff shall follow all rules of the state psychiatric hospital while on the campus of the hospital.

(Authorized by K.S.A. 
75-3307b
; implementing K.S.A. 
39-1603
, 
39-1604
(d), 
39-1608
(a) and (c), 
65-4434
(f), and 
75-3304a
; effective July 7, 2003.)

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