Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT › Article 4 - MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH › Section 28-4-330 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11,
			 2024
(a) "Administrator"
			 means a person employed by a secure residential treatment facility who is
			 responsible for the overall administration of the facility.
(b) "Basement" means each area with a floor
			 level more than 30 inches below ground level on all four sides.
(c) "Clinical director" means a person who is
			 employed by the secure residential treatment facility, who is responsible for
			 the overall treatment program, and who is approved by the Kansas behavioral
			 sciences regulatory board, Kansas board of nursing, or Kansas board of healing
			 arts to diagnose and treat mental and behavioral disorders.
(d) "Corporal punishment" means an activity
			 directed toward modifying a youth's behavior by means of adverse physical
			 contact, including spanking with the hand or an implement, slapping, swatting,
			 pulling hair, or any similar activity.
(e) "Department" means the Kansas department
			 of health and environment.
(f)
			 "Discipline" means the ongoing process of helping youth develop inner control
			 so that they can manage their own behavior in a socially approved manner.
(g) "Individual plan of care"
			 means a written, goal-oriented treatment plan to enable a youth to function in
			 a less restrictive environment, including the planned programs, therapies, and
			 activities designed to move the individual to a level of functioning consistent
			 with living in a community setting.
(h) "Involuntary seclusion" means the removal
			 of a youth from other youths to a separate locked room or quarters.
(i) "License" means a document issued by the
			 Kansas department of health and environment that authorizes a licensee to
			 operate and maintain a secure residential treatment facility.
(j) "Program" means the comprehensive and
			 coordinated activities and services providing for the care, protection, and
			 treatment of youth.
(k) "Program
			 director" means the staff person responsible for the oversight and
			 implementation of the program.
(l)
			 "Restraint" means the application of any devices, other than human force alone,
			 to any part of the body of a youth in care for the purpose of preventing the
			 youth from causing injury to oneself or others.
(m) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
			 Kansas department of health and environment.
(n) "Secure facility" means a child care
			 facility that is operated or structured to ensure that the entrances and exits
			 from the facility are under the exclusive control of the staff.
(o) "Secure residential treatment facility"
			 means a secure facility operated or structured to provide a therapeutic
			 residential care alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for five or more
			 youth with a diagnosis of a severe emotional, behavioral, or psychiatric
			 condition.
(p) "Treatment" means
			 comprehensive, individualized, goal-directed, therapeutic services provided to
			 youth.
(q) "Treatment team" means
			 the secure residential treatment facility's interdisciplinary personnel
			 responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of each youth's
			 individualized plan of care.
(r)
			 "Youth" means a person or persons who are admitted to a secure residential
			 treatment facility for treatment.
(s) "Youth care staff" means the persons
			 employed by the secure residential treatment facility to supervise the youth.
(t) "Youth record" means any
			 electronic or written document concerning a youth admitted to a secure
			 residential treatment facility that is created or obtained by an employee of
			 the secure residential treatment facility.