R9-10-813. Behavioral Health Services

If an assisted living facility is authorized to provide behavioral health services other than behavioral care, a manager shall ensure that: 1. Policies and procedures are established, documented, and implemented that cover when general consent and informed consent are required and by whom general consent and informed consent may be given; 2. The behavioral health services: a. Are provided under the direction of a behavioral health professional; and b. Comply with the requirements: i. For behavioral health paraprofessionals and behavioral health technicians, in R9-10-115; and ii. For an assessment, in R9-10-1011(B); and 3. For a resident who requests or receives behavioral health services from the assisted living facility, a behavioral health professional: a. Evaluates the resident within 30 calendar days before acceptance of the resident and at least once every six months throughout the duration of the resident’s need for behavioral health services; b. Reviews the assisted living facility’s scope of services; and c. Signs and dates a determination stating that the resident’s needs can be met by the assisted living facility within the assisted living facility’s scope of services and, for retention of a resident, are being met by the assisted living facility.