Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-301.2 - [Effective 7/1/2025] The behavioral health care continuum
(1)
Behavioral health services. Behavioral health services
overseen by a BH-ASO will include ensuring access to the full continuum of
behavioral health care, including:
a.
Prevention services, including indicated prevention, primary substance use
prevention and universal prevention, and selective prevention.
b. Early identification.
c. Early intervention services.
d. Crisis services, including immediate
access to crisis assessment and evaluation; access centers; sobering centers;
mobile crisis response; crisis-stabilization, community-based services; and
crisisstabilization, residential services.
e. Mental health outpatient treatment
services, including screening, assessment, diagnosis, risk assessment, and
crisis planning.
f. Mental health,
high-intensity outpatient treatment services, including ACT, intensive
outpatient programs (IOP), intensive psychiatric rehabilitation (IPR), partial
hospitalization, and day treatment.
g. PMIC.
h. Mental health inpatient
treatment.
i. Hospital
alternatives, including subacute services, 23-hour observation and holding, and
crisis respite services.
j.
Substance use disorder outpatient treatment services, including assessment and
evaluation services.
k. Substance
use disorder intensive outpatient treatment services.
l. Substance use disorder partial
hospitalization services.
m.
Substance use disorder clinically managed residential treatment
services.
n. Recovery
supports.
o. Peer support and peer
recovery coaching.
p. Peer wellness
and recovery community centers.
q.
Transitional living and recovery housing programs.
r. Jail-based behavioral health services,
including provision of behavioral health treatment and medications in
jails.
s. Commitment-related
services, including prescreening, secure transportation, legal representation,
and mental health advocates.
t.
Outpatient competency restoration.
u. Outreach, education, and engagement
services.
v. Additional services
deemed necessary for a district or statewide as determined by the district
behavioral health service system plan and approved by the department.
(2)
Additional
requirements. Additional requirements related to behavioral health
services include crisis system navigation that must be available 24 hours per
day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
(3)
Option for waiting
lists. The department will maintain a waiting list of individuals
denied access to the program due to lack of available funds. Waiting list
information will include the date on which the individual was placed on the
waiting list. If additional funds become available, the department will contact
individuals on the list.
Notes
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