Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part VII - Mental Health Manual › Subpart D - Nonresidential Agencies/Facilities/Services › Chapter 5210 - PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 5210.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Child psychiatrist
-A physician who has
						completed a residency in psychiatry and who has a specialty in child psychiatry
						and who is licensed to practice in this Commonwealth.
Clinical staff
-A mental health
						professional or mental health worker. The term does not include support staff
						such as clerical, fiscal or administrative.
Department
-The Department of Public
						Welfare.
FTE-Full-time equivalent
-Thirty-seven
						and one-half hours per week of staff time.
Facility
-A mental health establishment,
						hospital, clinic, institution, center, day care or other organizational unit or
						part thereof, which is devoted primarily to the diagnosis, treatment, care and
						rehabilitation of mentally ill or emotionally disturbed persons.
Mental health professional
-A person
						trained in a generally recognized clinical discipline including, but not
						limited to, psychiatry, social work, psychology or nursing, rehabilitation or
						activity therapies who has a graduate degree and mental health clinical
						experience.
Mental health worker
-A person without a
						graduate degree who by training and experience has achieved recognition as a
						mental health worker.
Partial hospitalization
-A nonresidential
						treatment modality which includes psychiatric, psychological, social and
						vocational elements under medical supervision. It is designed for patients with
						moderate to severe mental or emotional disorders. Partial hospitalization
						patients require less than 24-hour care, but more intensive and comprehensive
						services than are offered in outpatient treatment programs. Partial
						hospitalization is provided on a planned and regularly scheduled basis for a
						minimum of 3 hours, but less than 24 hours in any 1 day.
Program capacity
-The maximum number of
						patients which the program is designed to serve on 1 day. Since some patients
						may attend the program less frequently than every day, it is not the total
						registered patient population.
Psychiatric nurse
-A person who by years
						of study, training and experience has achieved professional recognition and
						standing in the field of psychiatric nursing and who is licensed by the State
						Board of Nursing to engage in the practice of professional nursing.
Psychiatric social worker
-A person with
						a graduate degree in social work who by years of study, training and experience
						in mental health has achieved professional recognition and standing in the
						field of psychiatric social work.
Psychiatrist
-A physician who has
						completed a 3-year residency in psychiatry and who is licensed to practice in
						this Commonwealth.
Psychologist
-A person licensed to
						practice psychology in this Commonwealth.
Quality assurance program
-A formal
						process to assure quality care and maximize program benefit to
						patients.