Pa. Code 5200.12

Linkages with mental health service system

This section requires psychiatric outpatient clinics in Pennsylvania to establish and maintain written linkage agreements with acute inpatient psychiatric services, emergency examination providers, and a full continuum of care including crisis, partial hospitalization, peer support, and community residential programs. Clinics serving children must also maintain linkages with educational and social service agencies. All clinics must participate in the County MH/ID plan, maintain a continuity-of-care agreement with the County MH/ID authority, and document the need for their services in their certificate of compliance application. New clinics or new sites must additionally document service area need and obtain county review before the Department approves expansion.

55 Pa. Code § 5200.12 - Linkages with mental health service system 

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(a)
 A psychiatric outpatient clinic requires
 a close relationship with an acute psychiatric inpatient service and a provider
 of emergency examination and treatment. A written statement describing the
 accessibility and availability of the services to individuals is required and
 shall be maintained on file at the psychiatric outpatient clinic and updated as
 needed.

(b)
 A psychiatric outpatient
 clinic shall maintain linkages with other treatment and rehabilitative services
 for a full continuum of care, including crisis services, partial
 hospitalization programs, peer support, psychiatric rehabilitation programs,
 intensive community services, community residential programs and community
 psychiatric hospitals. A written statement describing the accessibility and
 availability of the services to individuals is required and shall be maintained
 on file at the psychiatric outpatient clinics and updated as needed to
 accurately state the services currently available.

(c)
 When the psychiatric outpatient clinic
 serves children, linkages with the appropriate educational and social service
 agencies shall also be maintained. A written statement describing the
 accessibility and availability of the services to children is required and
 shall be maintained on file at the psychiatric outpatient clinic and updated as
 needed to accurately state the services currently available.

(d)
 A psychiatric outpatient clinic shall
 participate in the overall system of care as defined in the County Mental
 Health/Intellectual Disability (MH/ID) plan. A psychiatric outpatient clinic
 shall have an agreement regarding continuity of care and information exchange
 with the County MH/ID authority. A copy of an agreement must be included in the
 application package. Psychiatric outpatient clinics shall document the need for
 their services in their application for a certificate of compliance.

(e)
 New psychiatric outpatient clinics or new
 sites of existing psychiatric outpatient clinics established after the
 effective date of this chapter shall document the need in the proposed service
 area for the expansion of outpatient services. County MH/ID authorities shall
 review this documentation and make a recommendation to the Department. The
 Department may deny approval of the expansion where inadequate justification is
 provided.

Notes

55

 Pa. Code §
 
5200.12

The
 provisions of this § 5200.12 amended October 11, 2019, effective
 
10/12/2019
, 49 Pa.B.
 5943.

The provisions of this § 5200.12 amended under section
 1021 of the Human Services Code (
62 P.S. §
 
1021
);
 sections 105 and 112 of the Mental Health Procedures Act (
50 P.S. §§
 
7105
 and
 
7112
); and section 201(2) of
 the Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Act of 1966 (
50 P.S. §
 
4201(2)
).

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