Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part VII - Mental Health Manual › Subpart E - Residential Agencies/Facilities/Services › Chapter 5310 - COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION SERVICES FOR THE MENTALLY ILL › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 5310.6 - 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:
CRRS-Community residential rehabilitation
						services
-Transitional residential programs in community settings for
						persons with chronic psychiatric disability. CRRS's provide housing, personal
						assistance and psychosocial rehabilitation to clients in nonmedical settings.
						There are two levels of care, full or partial, which are distinguished by the
						level of functioning of the clients served and the intensity of rehabilitation
						and training services provided by CRRS staff to the clients. In both levels of
						care, the provider acts as landlord to the client. Except host homes for
						children, every site used by a CRRS to house clients is owned, held, leased or
						controlled by the provider or a provider-affiliate.
Child
-A person who is under 18 years of
						age and who is not an emancipated minor.
Full-care CRRS for adults
-A program that
						provides living accommodations for the client with staff onsite whenever a
						client is there and a full range of personal assistance and psychosocial
						rehabilitation for psychiatrically disabled adults who display severe community
						adjustment problems and who require an intensive, structured living
						situation.
Full-care CRRS for children
-A program
						providing living accommodations with maximum supervision, personal assistance
						and a full range of psycho-social rehabilitation services for psychiatrically
						disabled children who display severe interpersonal adjustment problems and who
						require an intensive, structured living situation.
Host home for children
-A private
						residence of a family, other than the home of the child's parents, with whom
						the CRRS contracts to provide a structured living arrangement for one to three
						children.
Mental disorder
-Conditions classified as
						mental disorders by the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM)
						excluding mental retardation and drug/alcohol conditions.
Mental health professional
-A person
						trained in a generally recognized clinical discipline, including, but not
						limited to, psychiatry, social work, psychology, nursing, rehabilitation,
						special education or activity therapies who has a graduate degree and clinical
						experience.
Mobile ambulatory
-Able to walk without
						assistance.
Mobile nonambulatory
-The ability to move
						from place to place with the use of devices such as walkers, crutches,
						wheelchairs, wheeled platforms, and the like, by a person who is otherwise
						unable to walk independently.
Parent
-The mother or father by birth or
						adoption or the legal guardian of the child.
Partial-care CRRS
-A program that
						provides living accommodations for the client. Staff is at the site on a
						regularly scheduled basis including evenings and weekends. A limited range of
						personal assistance and psychosocial services are provided for psychiatrically
						disabled adults who display community adjustment problems and require a living
						situation which includes rehabilitation and training
						services.
The provisions of this §
													5310.6 amended under Articles IX
						  and X of the Public Welfare Code (62 P. S. §§
														901-922 and
						  1001-1080).
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
													5310.3 (relating to
						  applicability).