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Behavorial Health Provider Type Definitions
Adult Behavioral Health Therapeutic Home:
means a residence for individuals who are at least eighteen years of age, have behavioral health issues and need behavioral health services that does all of the following for those individuals:
(a) Provides room and board.
(b) Assists in acquiring daily living skills.
(c) Coordinates transportation to scheduled appointments.
(d) Monitors behaviors.
(e) Assists in the self-administration of medication.
(f) Provides feedback to case managers related to behavior.
Adult Residential Care Institution:
means a subclass of behavioral health residential facility that only admits residents 18 years of age and older and provides recidivism reduction services.
Behavioral Health Residential Facility:
means a health care institution that provides treatment to an individual experiencing a behavioral health issue that:
a. Limits the individual’s ability to be independent, or
b. Causes the individual to require treatment to maintain or enhance independence.
Behavioral Health Respite Home:
means a residence where respite care services, which may include assistance in the self-administration of medication, are provided to an individual based on the individual’s behavioral health issue and need for behavioral health services.
Recidivism Reduction Services:
means services that are delivered by an adult residential care institution to its residents to encourage lawful behavior and to discourage or prevent residents who are suspected of, charged with or convicted of one or more criminal offenses, or whose mental health and substance use can be reasonably expected to place them at risk for the future threat of prosecution, diversion or incarceration, from engaging in future unlawful behavior.
Respite Care Services:
means services that are provided by a licensed health care institution to persons who are otherwise cared for in foster homes and in private homes to provide an interval of rest or relief of not more than thirty days to operators of foster homes or to family members.
Sober living homes:
Any premises, place or building that provides alcohol-free or drug-free housing and that:
Promotes independent living and life skills development.
May provide activities that are directed primarily toward recovery from substance use disorders.
Provides a supervised setting to a group of unrelated individuals who are recovering from substance use disorders.
Does not provide any medical or clinical services or medication administration on site, except for verification of abstinence.
Behavioral Health Services:
means services that pertain to mental health and substance use disorders and that are either:
(a) Performed by or under the supervision of a professional who is licensed pursuant to title 32 and whose scope of practice allows the professional to provide these services.
(b) Performed on behalf of patients by behavioral health staff as prescribed by rule.