Pa. Code 5310.39

Service linkages

This section requires Community Residential Rehabilitation Services (CRRS) to establish formal service linkage arrangements, including written letters of agreement for emergency psychiatric and medical care, coordination with the client's mental health treatment providers, and ongoing medical and dental care arrangements. CRRS programs must also maintain a written agreement with the County MH/MR program specifying case management relationships, continuity of care, information exchange, and reporting procedures for critical events such as client deaths, disasters, program closure, and rights violations.

55 Pa. Code § 5310.39 - Service linkages 

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(a)
 The
 community residential rehabilitation service (CRRS) must establish: 
 
(1)
 Arrangements for emergency psychiatric
 care for clients, confirmed by a letter of agreement.

(2)
 Arrangements with the persons or agencies
 responsible for the client's mental health treatment to ensure ongoing care and
 coordination between the treatment service and the CRRS.

(3)
 Arrangements for emergency medical care
 for clients.

(b)
 The CRRS
 must make arrangements with individual practitioners or health care services to
 ensure ongoing medical and dental care for each client.

(c)
 All CRRS's must participate in the
 overall system of mental health care as defined in the County Mental
 Health/Mental Retardation (MH/MR) Plan. The CRRS must have a written agreement
 with the County MH/MR program which:
(1)

 Specifies the relationship of the CRRS with the county program case management
 system.

(2)
 Provides the continuity
 of care and information exchange.

(3)
 Indicates the procedure for reporting by
 the CRRS to the County program of the following: 
 
(i)
 Client deaths.

(ii)
 Fire or other disaster rendering a CRRS
 site uninhabitable.

(iii)
 Program
 closure.

(iv)
 Reported instances of
 violations of clients' rights in the
 CRRS.

Notes

55

 Pa. Code §
 
5310.39

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 §
 
5310.128
 (relating to service
 linkage).

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