Professional Services

(1) The facility must provide outpatient treatment services necessary to assess needs, help the service recipient understand addiction and support the completion of the detoxification process. (2) Service recipients must be given instruction about dosages, appropriate use, and self- administration of medications. (3) The facility must plan for discharge to address service recipient needs as indicated in the assessment/history in the areas vocational, educational skills and academic performance; financial issues; cognitive, socio-emotional, and psychological issues; social, family, and peer interactions; physical health; community living skills and housing information. Such services may be provided directly by the agency or indirectly by referral to other service providers. Referral agreements with frequently used providers must be documented. The provision of such services to individual service recipients must be documented in the service recipient record at the facility. (4) The facility must document either by written agreements or by program services access to an interdisciplinary team of appropriately trained clinicians (such as physicians, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists) to assess, obtain, and interpret information regarding service recipient needs. The number and disciplines of team members must be appropriate to the range and severity of the service recipient’s problem. MINIMUM PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR ALCOHOL AND CHAPTER 0940-05-47 DRUG OUTPATIENT DETOXIFICATION TREATMENT FACILITIES (5) The facility must document, either by written agreements or by program services, the provision of twenty-four (24) hour a day, seven (7) day a week availability of immediate medical evaluation and care.