Provider criteria

A social detoxification provider shall: 1. Maintain a safe, comfortable, positive environment in a residential setting; 2. Have an agreement with local medical providers that ensure readily accessible emergency care when needed; 3. Implement a protocol so that the nature of the medical interventions required are developed and supported by a physician knowledgeable in addiction medicine; 4. Have available specialized clinical consultation and supervision for biomedical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive problems; 5. Have awake staff twenty-four hours per day to monitor clients' conditions; 6. Have staff trained in admission, monitoring skills, including signs and symptoms of alcohol and other drug intoxication and withdrawal as well as appropriate treatment of those conditions, supportive care, basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation technique, assessment, and referral procedures; 7. Have services including close observation, supportive staff-client interaction, provision for proper fluid and nutritional components, and provision for client space that offers low to moderate sensory stimulation; 8. Implement a clearly defined policy for admission, care, discharge, and transfer of a client to another level of care; 9. Develop a method of documentation of care and train staff in documentation procedures; 10. Develop linkage with providers of other levels of care so the client may begin a therapeutic process as soon as the client is physically and mentally able to do so; 11. Administer a range of cognitive, behavioral, medical, mental health, and other therapies on an individual or group basis designed to meet the client's ability to participate in order to enhance the client's understanding of addiction, the completion of the detoxification process, and referral to an appropriate level of care for continuing treatment; 12. Develop a preliminary individualized treatment plan with the client that includes problem identification in ASAM PPC dimension two through six and development of treatment goals and measurable treatment objectives and activities designed to meet those objectives; and 13. Implement a policy for medication storage, security, and self-administration to assure that the client receives the client's medication and for observation of the medication taking behavior.