This section requires Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) agencies to maintain written coordination agreements with other service providers (psychiatric inpatient facilities, partial hospitalization programs, outpatient clinics, crisis intervention programs, and MH/IDD case management programs), updating those agreements at least every five years. Agencies must also maintain and annually update a community resource list of behavioral health services available to parents, guardians, caregivers, and the children/youth/young adults they serve. Additionally, agencies must have a written referral process for clients whose needs exceed the agency's capacity and document those referrals in agency records.
View official source55 Pa. Code § 5240.7 - Coordination of services State Regulations Compare (a) An IBHS agency shall have written agreements to coordinate services with other service providers, including the following: (1) Psychiatric inpatient facilities. (2) Partial hospitalization programs. (3) Psychiatric outpatient clinics. (4) Crisis intervention programs. (5) Mental health and intellectual or developmental disability case management programs. (b) An IBHS agency shall update the written agreements with other service providers at least every 5 years. (c) An IBHS agency shall have a list of community resources that provide behavioral health services that is available upon request by a parent, legal guardian, or caregiver of a child or a youth, or a youth or young adult receiving services that includes the following: (1) The name of the program or organization. (2) Description of the services provided. (3) Address and phone number of the program or organization. (d) An IBHS agency shall update the community resource list annually. (e) An IBHS agency shall have a written referral process for children, youth and young adults whose therapeutic needs cannot be served by the agency. The IBHS agency shall document in its records referrals made for a child, youth or young adult the IBHS agency could not serve. Notes 55 Pa. Code § 5240.7 This section cited in 55 Pa. Code § 5240.42 (relating to agency records). State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare. No prior version found. State Regulations Toolbox