The license holder must ensure that the residential program employs or contracts with a mental health professional to provide consultation relating to the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of program services.
A mental health professional must provide at least weekly face-to-face clinical supervision to staff providing program services to a resident. The mental health professional:
must advise the facility director about the planning, development, and implementation of staff development and evaluation; and
may provide consultation instead of clinical supervision to other mental health professionals under contract or employed by the license holder to provide program services to a resident.
A mental health professional must:
supervise the diagnostic assessment of each resident in the facility and the development of each resident's individual treatment plan;
document involvement in the treatment planning process by signing the individual treatment plan;
supervise the implementation of the individual treatment plan and the ongoing documentation and evaluation of each resident's progress, including the quarterly progress review; and
document on a biweekly basis a review of all the program services provided for the resident in the preceding weeks.
The license holder must ensure that the mental health professional can be reached for consultation about a mental health emergency, at least by telephone, within 30 minutes.
28 SR 211
August 5, 2008
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes