California Code of Regulations › Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services › Division 1 - Department of Mental Health › Chapter 3 - Community Mental Health Services Under the Short-Doyle Act › Article 6 - Utilization Review of Short-Doyle Funded Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Services › Section 590 - Review Process

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Counties shall comply with the Department's Quality Assurance
					 Standards and Guidelines section titled Utilization Review of Short-Doyle Funded
					 Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Services--Requirements and Procedures (March 1, 1984).
					 Review of patient admission and continued stay necessity shall be performed
					 concurrently with hospitalization. Admission and continued stay reviews for acutely
					 ill patients shall determine the existence and continuance of the necessity for
					 acute inpatient psychiatric treatment. Continued stay reviews shall be performed at
					 least as often as indicated by the length of stay intervals specified in the
					 Department's Requirements and Procedures. Admission and continued stay reviews for
					 non-acutely ill patients shall determine the existence and continuance of special
					 administrative circumstances as categorized in Section
					 591. Continued stay reviews shall be
					 performed at five (5) working day intervals and must include review of the
					 continuing efforts being made to resolve the administrative circumstances preventing
					 discharge.
At each continued stay review, Short-Doyle funded inpatients
					 shall be re-evaluated for eligibility for other funding as required by Section
					 565.5.
All patients admitted to and provided services within
					 Short-Doyle funded acute inpatient psychiatric facilities shall be included in the
					 utilization review process pursuant to this Article.
1. New Article 6
					 (Sections 590-594) filed 2-24-83 as an emergency;
					 effective upon filing (Register 83, No. 9). A Certificate of Compliance must be
					 transmitted to OAL within 180 days or emergency language will be repealed on
					 8-23-83.
2. Editorial correction of HISTORY NOTE No. 1 (Register 83, No.
					 35).
3. Article 6 (Sections
					 590-594) repealed by operation of
					 Government Code Section
					 11346.1(g)
					 (Register 83, No. 35).
4. New Article 6 (Sections
					 590-594) filed 8-24-83 as an emergency;
					 effective upon filing (Register 83, No. 35). A Certificate of Compliance must be
					 transmitted to OAL within 180 days or emergency language will be repealed on
					 2-20-84.
5. Certificate of Compliance as to 8-24-83 order transmitted to
					 OAL 1-31-84 and filed 3-2-84 (Register 84, No. 9).
6. Order of Repeal as
					 to Sections 590,
					 591 and
					 592 only filed 3-2-84 by OAL pursuant to
					 Government Code Section
					 11349.6
					 (Register 84, No. 9).
7. New section filed 3-14-84 as an emergency;
					 effective upon filing (Register 84, No. 13). A Certificate of Compliance must be
					 transmitted to OAL within 120 days or emergency language will be repealed on
					 7-12-84.
8. New section refiled 4-27-84; effective upon filing pursuant
					 to Government Code Section
					 11346.2(d)
					 (Register 84, No. 18).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						4073,
						Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections
						4070
						and
						5624,
						Welfare and Institutions Code.