This section establishes a waiver process for partial hospitalization programs that face difficulty meeting regulatory standards due to circumstances such as rural location. A waiver of a specific standard may be granted for six months and renewed up to three times, but only where the need for services and efforts to comply are documented. Waivers are considered exceptional and require approval from the Office of Mental Health.
View official source55 Pa. Code § 5210.57 - Waiver of standards State Regulations Compare In instances where the development of specialty partial hospitalizaton program services is severely limited by these standards, such as, rural clinics, a waiver may be granted to a particular standard for a period of 6 months and may be renewed up to 3 times. The waivers can be applied only in areas where the need for the services and the attempts to meet the standards are adequately documented. The waivers are to be considered only in exceptional circumstances and are subject to approval by the Office of Mental Health. Notes 55 Pa. Code § 5210.57 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