Code of Maine Rules › 14 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › 118 - OFFICE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (SAMHS) › Chapter 5 - REGULATIONS FOR LICENSING AND CERTIFYING OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS › Section 118-5-1 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
1.1 Administrator: The individual appointed
				by the Governing Authority to act in its behalf in the overall management of
				the substance abuse program. The Chief Administrative Officer shall serve as
				the administrator of the agency. See Section 3.3
1.2 Advisory Board: A group that makes
				recommendations regarding any aspect of the agency's operations or practices,
				as charged by the Governing Body, but having no proprietary interest in the
				program or service or actual managerial or administrative authority.
1.3 Agency: An incorporated firm,
				partnership, association, or organization licensed/certified under these
				regulations that provides at least one substance abuse treatment service.
				Agency is also known as licensee/provider.
1.4 Appeal: A written request by an agency
				for a hearing to review any negative licensing action taken by the Licensing
				Authority or department as provided by the Maine Administrative Procedure Act,
				Title
				5 M.R.S.A. §9051 et
				seq.
1.5 Applicant: Any
				individual(s), partnership, corporation, association, or organization that has
				submitted a written application to operate a licensed/certified substance abuse
				program or service.
1.6 Assessment
				(Clinical): A written record of intake data performed by a clinician to arrive
				at a diagnosis, determine the degree of impairment, and determine treatment
				needs and services.
1.7 Certificate
				of Approval: A certificate issued by DHHS to a nonresidential program that
				indicates satisfactory compliance with applicable regulations.
1.8 Client: Any individual who has applied
				for, or has received services such as an assessment, diagnosis or treatment in
				a substance abuse program.
1.9
				Client Record: A unified, comprehensive collection of documentation concerning
				a client in a substance abuse program.
1.10 Clinician: A person who is qualified
				through education, training, experience, and licensure to provide treatment
				services.
1.11 Compliance: To be in
				accordance with the requirement of a regulation.
1.12 Component: A category of comprehensive
				services within an agency, such as substance abuse services or mental health
				services that includes one or more treatment modules.
1.13 Conditional License/Certificate: A
				license/certificate issued when an applicant fails to meet substantially the
				requirements of these regulations, or when the program cannot be maintained in
				legal compliance (policy), or when multiple citations are repeated from a
				previous review and have not been corrected. This license/ certificate shall be
				issued for a specific period, not to exceed one year, or the remaining period
				of the previous full license/certificate. The license/certificate-shall specify
				what and when corrections must be made in order to continue to
				operate.
1.14 Contracted staff:
				Contracted staff persons are independent contractors, including but not limited
				to, consultants, affiliate counselors who provide clinical services for a
				licensed agency, and per diem staff who work on an infrequent and irregular
				basis.
1.15 Co-occurring Disorder
				(COD): Clients with co-occurring disorders have any combination of any mental
				health problem with any substance abuse problem or gambling disorder.
1.16 Co-occurring Disorder Integrated
				Services: Any of a broad range of appropriately matched interventions
				(including screening, assessment, motivational, treatment, skill building, and
				relapse prevention strategies) for mental health and substance use
				disorders.
1.17 Co-occurring
				Disorder Program: A Co-occurring Disorder Program designs its policies,
				procedures, screening, assessment, program content, treatment planning,
				discharge planning, interagency relationships, and staff competencies to
				routinely provide integrated co-occurring disorder services to the individuals
				and families with co-occurring disorders who present for care.
1.17.1 Co-occurring Disorder Capable Program:
				COD-C substance abuse programs are organized to welcome, identify, engage, and
				serve individuals with co-occurring mental health disorders, and to incorporate
				attention to these issues in all aspects of program content including organized
				linkage with mental health providers, and staff competency and training. Such
				programs provide services that incorporate understanding of and approaches to
				mental health problems as they relate to and affect the substance abuse
				disorder.