1. (1) Introduction. The following standards have been developed for community inpatient mental health services receiving state aids, whether directly operated by counties or contracted with private providers. The standards are intended to be consistent with those stated in Standards for Psychiatric Facilities, published by the American Psychiatric Association, 1969; with the psychiatric footnotes to the Accreditation Manual for Hospitals, published by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, December, 1970; and with recent federal court decisions in Wisconsin and other states. They are intended to insure that each mental health inpatient service will provide appropriate treatment to restore mentally disordered persons to an optimal level of functioning and return them to the community at the earliest possible date. In order to do this the service must:

   1. (a) Have an ethical, competent staff responsible for carrying out a comprehensive treatment program;
   2. (b) Integrate its services with those provided by other facilities in the county which serve the mentally ill, individuals with intellectual disabilities, and alcoholics and drug abusers;
   3. (c) Preserve the dignity and rights of all its patients; and
   4. (d) Be responsive to the needs of its community.

2. (2) Definitions. As used in this subchapter:

   1. (a) “Community mental health inpatient services”, hereafter called “services”, means a county-operated unit, general hospital psychiatric unit, or private psychiatric hospital whose primary objective is to provide care and intensive treatment for the mentally ill, alcoholics and drug abusers.
   2. (b) “Patient” means anyone receiving care in a community mental health inpatient service.

History

History: Cr. Register, December, 1973, No. 216, eff. 1-1-74; renum. from PW-MH 60.61, and am. (2), Register, September, 1982, No. 321, eff. 10-1-82; 2019 Wis. Act 1: am. (1) (b) Register May 2019 No. 761, eff. 6-1-19.