Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 495 - Licensure of Private Freestanding Mental Health Day Treatment Facilities, Intermediate Treatment Facilities and Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics for Adults › Licensure of private freestanding mental health day treatment facilities, intermediate treatment facilities and psychiatric outpatient clinics for adults › Section 19a-495-550 - Licensure of private freestanding mental health day treatment facilities, intermediate treatment facilities and psychiatric outpatient clinics for adults

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
(1) "Aftercare"
				means the continuing contact of the client with a facility which helps to
				maintain and increase his or her well-being after the completion or termination
				of participation in a residential treatment facility;
(2) "Applicant" means any individual, firm,
				partnership, corporation or association applying for a license or renewal of a
				license under these regulations;
(3) "Certificate of need" means approval of
				capital expenditures or functions or services from the Commission on Hospitals
				and Health Care in accordance with Sections 19a-154 to 19a-155, inclusive, of
				the Connecticut General Statutes;
(4) "Client" means an individual utilizing
				the services of and admitted to facility;
(5) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				Health Services;
(6) "Department"
				means the Connecticut Department of Health Services;
(7) "Direct care staff" means those persons
				who are directly involved in the delivery of care or treatment;
(8) "Goals" means attainable ends towards
				which facility and client activities or services are directed and
				focused;
(9) "Governing body" means
				the individual or individuals with the ultimate authority and responsibility
				for the overall operation of a facility's program;
(10) "Intermediate treatment facility" means
				a facility which provides evaluative, diagnostic, and treatment services in a
				residential setting for individuals who are experiencing mental, emotional or
				behavioral problems, disturbances, dysfunctions or disorders as defined in the
				Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, as
				may be revised from time to time, which do not require a hospital level of
				treatment;
(11) "License" means the
				form of permission issued by the department that authorizes the applicant to
				operate a facility;
(12) "Licensee"
				means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or association licensed to
				conduct a facility;
(13) "Licensed
				nurse" means registered nurse or practical nurse licensed in
				Connecticut;
(14) "Day treatment
				facility" means a facility which provides evaluation, diagnosis, and ambulatory
				treatment services for individuals who are experiencing mental, emotional or
				behavioral problems, disturbances, dysfunctions or disorders as defined in the
				Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association as it
				may be revised from time to time and whose unit of service to each client is a
				minimum of four hours and a maximum of twelve hours;
(15) "Objectives" means specific, measurable
				and time limited statements designed to achieve overall goals in an incremental
				process;
(16) "Paraprofessional"
				means a person trained as a mental health aide to assist a
				professional;
(17) "Patient rights"
				means those personal, property, and civil rights to which all clients in any
				facility defined by these regulations are entitled to under the provisions of
				Sections 17-206a to 17-206k, inclusive, of the Connecticut General Statutes, as
				well as all present and revised Federal and State laws, statutes, codes or
				regulations concerning confidentiality of communication and records;
(18) "Physician" means an individual who has
				a license to practice medicine in Connecticut;
(19) "Psychiatric outpatient clinic" means a
				facility which provides evaluation, diagnosis, and ambulatory treatment, to
				individuals who have mental, emotional or behavioral problems, disturbances,
				dysfunctions or disorders as defined in the most recent edition of the
				Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, as
				it may be revised from time to time;
(20) "Psychosocial rehabilitation services"
				means services which are designed for individuals in need of mental health
				services which enable individuals to live, learn, work in their own communities
				with maximum independence;
(21)
				"Therapeutic recreation" means individual and group activities designed to
				improve the physical and mental health and condition of each client;
(22) "Treatment services" means those
				services including, but not limited to, psychosocial rehabilitation and
				counseling, which are designed to arrest, reverse or ameliorate the client's
				mental, emotional or behavioral problems, disturbances, dysfunctions or
				disorders.