Section 330.1201. Definitions.

Rule 1201. As used in this subpart:

(a)  "Active treatment" means all of the following:

(i)   Services that are provided under an individualized plan of services.

(ii)    Services that are directed toward improving or maintaining the patient's condition.

(iii)    Services that are provided, or supervised and evaluated, by a mental health professional.

(b)   "Activity area" means a space that is made available to patients for diversional and social activities.

(c)     "Hospital" means a mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, or psychiatric unit which is not operated by the department of mental health or by the federal government.

(d)   "Major construction" means any change or addition to, or renovation of, an existing structure which would require an architect or an engineer to design a plan or which would cost more than $100,000.00.

(e)   "Mental health professional," within a licensed hospital, means   a psychiatrist, as defined in chapter 4 of the act, a pediatrician, a psychologist, a certified social worker, or a registered nurse.

(f)  "Mental hospital" or "psychiatric hospital" means a freestanding establishment which offers inpatient services for the observation, diagnosis, active treatment, and overnight care of persons with a mental disease or with a chronic mental condition who require daily direction or supervision of physicians and mental health professionals who are licensed to practice in this state.

(g)     "Psychiatric unit" means a coordinated psychiatric inpatient program of  a general hospital which offers services for the  observation, diagnosis, active treatment, and overnight care of persons with a mental disease or with a chronic mental condition who require the daily direction or supervision of a physician or mental health professionals who are licensed or certified to practice in this state.

(h)    "Registered record administrator" or "accredited record technician" means a person who met the educational requirements for taking, and who has successfully passed, the appropriate examination conducted by the American medical record association.

History: 1979 AC; 1981 AACS; 1983 AACS; 1988 AACS.