This rule requires license holders operating under Minnesota Rules chapter 9530.6500 to maintain a written, alphabetically indexed policy and procedures manual accessible to staff, clients, and authorized parties. The manual must address client education, personnel policies, admission and discharge, health monitoring, protective procedures, staffing ratios, abuse prevention, mandatory reporting, medication control, and HIV policies. This is an operational/administrative requirement that inherits the scope of its licensing chapter within the Minnesota DHS Behavioral Health Division.
View official source9530.6580 POLICY AND PROCEDURES MANUAL. A license holder must develop a written policy and procedures manual that is alphabetically indexed and has a table of contents, so that staff have immediate access to all policies and procedures and consumers of the services, and other authorized parties, have access to all policies and procedures. The manual must contain the following materials: § A. a description of client education services as required in part 9530.6530 ; § B. personnel policies that comply with part 9530.6570 ; § C. admission information and referral and discharge policies that comply with part 9530.6525 ; § D. a health monitoring plan that complies with part 9530.6550 ; § E. a protective procedures policy that complies with part 9530.6535 , if the program elects to use protective procedures; § F. policies and procedures for assuring appropriate client to staff ratios that comply with part 9530.6560 ; § G. policies and procedures for assessing and documenting the susceptibility for risk of abuse to the client and using the client assessment as the basis for the abuse prevention plan required by Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.65 ; § H. procedures for mandatory reporting as required by Minnesota Statutes, chapter 260E and sections 245A.65 and 626.557 ; § I. a medication control plan that complies with part 9530.6555 ; and § J. policies and procedures regarding HIV that meet the minimum standards under Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.19 .