As used in K.S.A. 65-5601 to 65-5605, inclusive, and amendments thereto:
- (a) "Patient" means a person who consults or is examined or interviewed by treatment personnel.
- (b) "Treatment personnel" means any employee of a treatment facility who receives a confidential communication from a patient while engaged in the diagnosis or treatment of a mental, alcoholic, drug dependency or emotional condition, if such communication was not intended to be disclosed to third persons.
- (c) "Ancillary personnel" means any employee of a treatment facility who is not included in the definition of treatment personnel.
- (d) "Treatment facility" means a community mental health center, community service provider, psychiatric hospital and state institution for people with intellectual disability.
- (e) "Head of the treatment facility" means the administrative director of a treatment facility or the designee of the administrative director.
- (f) "Community mental health center" means a mental health clinic or community mental health center licensed under K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto.
- (g) "Psychiatric hospital" means Larned state hospital, Osawatomie state hospital, Rainbow mental health facility, Topeka state hospital and hospitals licensed under K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto.
- (h) "State institution for people with intellectual disability" means Winfield state hospital and training center, Parsons state hospital and training center and the Kansas neurological institute.
- (i) "Community service provider" means: (1) A community facility for people with intellectual disability organized pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-4001 through 19-4015, and amendments thereto, and licensed in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto; (2) community service provider as provided in the developmental disabilities reform act; or (3) a nonprofit corporation which provides services for people with intellectual disability pursuant to a contract with an intellectual disability governing board.
L. 1986, ch. 212, § 1; L. 1995, ch. 234, § 18; L. 1996, ch. 167, § 60; L. 2012, ch. 91, § 53; July 1.