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Pa. Code 5310.41

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Staffing and training

Jurisdiction: PA Agency: Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (OMHSAS) and Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP)
MH_RESIDENTIAL (100%)
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This section establishes staffing and training requirements for Community Residential Rehabilitation Services (CRRS) in Pennsylvania. Operators must maintain sufficient qualified staff to provide supervision, personal assistance, and psychosocial rehabilitation services, with full-care CRRS requiring onsite staff whenever clients are present and partial-care CRRS requiring a regularly scheduled staffing pattern including evenings and weekends. A mental health professional must supervise the client service plan process and sign each individual residential service plan and review.

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55 Pa. Code § 5310.41 - Staffing and training 

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(a)
 The
 community residential rehabilitation service (CRRS) must have staff sufficient
 in number and qualifications to carry out the functions of CRRS which include
 supervision, personal assistance, and psychosocial rehabilitation services as
 indicated in the CRRS program description.

(b)
 Full-care CRRS must have staff onsite
 whenever a client is in the residence. Clients designated capable of
 self-preservation with minimal assistance, shall be served only in a Full-care
 CRRS.

(c)
 Partial-care CRRS must
 have staff onsite in a regularly scheduled staffing pattern including evenings
 and weekends. All CRRS where staff are on-call but not onsite for a portion of
 the time clients are in the residence are Partial-care CRRS.

(d)
 CRRS staff must have work experience or
 training relevant to performing the tasks and carrying out the responsibilities
 specified in their job descriptions.

(e)
 Clerical and other nonprogram staff must
 be employed as required to provide efficient program operations and to carry
 out the requirements of this chapter.

(f)
 A mental health professional shall
 supervise the client service plan process and shall sign each individual
 residential service plan and service plan review.

Notes

55

 Pa. Code §
 
5310.41

This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
 
5310.91
 (relating to special
 requirements for community residential rehabilitation service (CRRS) serving
 children); and 55 Pa. Code §
 
5310.131
 (relating to
 staffing).

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