New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XIII - Office of Mental Health › Part 600 - Crisis Stabilization Centers › Section 600.11 - Staffing

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Crisis
				Stabilization Centers shall continuously employ an adequate number of staff and
				an appropriate staff composition to carry out their goals and objectives as
				well as to ensure the continuous provision of sufficient ongoing and emergency
				supervision. Each Crisis Stabilization Center shall submit a staffing plan
				which includes the qualifications and duties of each staff position by title.
				The staffing plan and its rationale shall be subject to approval by the Office.
				The Office must be notified of and approve significant changes from the
				approved staffing plan.
(b) This
				staffing plan shall be based on the population to be served and the services to
				be provided.
(c) All clinical staff
				must have at least a high-school diploma or its equivalent.
(d) Supervisory staff: Crisis Stabilization
				Centers shall have a continuous provision of sufficient ongoing and emergency
				supervision.
(e) Intensive Crisis
				Stabilization Centers shall be overseen by a Medical Director who is a
				physician licensed and currently registered as such as by the New York State
				Education Department and shall have at least one year of education, training,
				and/or experience in mental health or substance use disorder
				services.
(f) Intensive Crisis
				Stabilization Centers shall have prescribing professionals on duty or on call
				at all times who can prescribe approved medications, including buprenorphine,
				consistent with state and federal rules.
(g) Program Director. Crisis Stabilization
				Centers shall have a Program Director pursuant to this Part for administrative
				oversight and quality assurance. Program director is a professional staff or
				certified or credentialed peer with at least two years of full-time clinical
				work experience in the mental health or substance use disorder treatment field
				and at least one year of which included supervisory responsibilities.
(h) All staff shall have qualifications
				appropriate to assigned responsibilities as set forth in the staffing plan and
				shall practice within the scope of their professional discipline and/or
				assigned responsibility. All staff shall submit documentation of their training
				and experience. Such documentation shall be verified and retained on file by
				the agency.
(i) The staffing plan
				shall include those clinical and professional staff as defined in this Part in
				sufficient type, schedules and numbers to meet projected volume and Recipient
				need.
(j) Criminal history
				information reviews required pursuant to Sections
				19.20,
				19.20a and
				31.35 of the Mental Hygiene Law,
				Sections 424-a and 495  of the Social Services Law, and 14 NYCRR 550 and 805,
				shall be conducted in accordance with such laws and regulations and any
				guidance issued by the Offices. All prospective employees, contractors and
				volunteers of Crisis Stabilization Centers licensed pursuant to article 36 of
				the Mental Hygiene Law who have the potential for, or may be permitted, regular
				and substantial unsupervised or unrestricted contact with Recipients shall
				submit to a criminal history information review. All staff with the potential
				for regular and substantial contact with Recipients in performance of their
				duties shall submit to clearance by the New York Statewide Central Register of
				Child Abuse and Maltreatment. Staff who have not been screened by the New York
				Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment shall not perform
				duties requiring contact with Recipients unless there is another staff member
				present.
(k) Multi-disciplinary
				team: A Crisis Stabilization Center as approved pursuant to this Part, shall be
				staffed with a multidisciplinary team capable of meeting the needs of
				presenting individuals which shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) Registered Nurse, who is onsite
				twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to ensure adequate screening,
				assessment and care for all Recipients.
(2) A psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse
				practitioner;
(3) A credentialed
				alcoholism and substance abuse counselor, and
(4) A certified peer specialist, as defined
				in this Part.