N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 14 § 526.2 - Legal base
(a) Section
7.07 of the Mental Hygiene Law charges the
Office of Mental Health with the responsibility for assuring the development of
comprehensive plans, programs, and services in the areas of research,
prevention, and care, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and training of
persons with mental illness. Such section further charges the office with the
responsibility for seeing that persons with mental illness are provided with
care and treatment, that such care and treatment is of high quality and
effectiveness, and that the personal and civil rights of persons receiving
care, treatment and rehabilitation are adequately protected.
(b) Section
7.09 of the Mental Hygiene Law grants the
Commissioner of the Office of Mental Health the authority and responsibility to
adopt regulations that are necessary and proper to implement matters under his
or her jurisdiction and set standards of quality of care.
(c) Section
29.20 of the Mental Hygiene Law requires
the Commissioner of the Office of Mental Health to promulgate regulations
governing the maximum size of nasogastric feeding tubes for the purpose of
protecting patients from undue discomfort.
(d) Section
31.19 of the Mental Hygiene Law provides
that no individual who is or appears to be mentally disabled shall be detained,
deprived of his/her liberty, or otherwise confined without lawful authority, or
inadequately, unskillfully, cruelly, or unsafely cared for or supervised by any
person.
(e) Section
33.03 of the Mental Hygiene Law authorizes
the Commissioner of the Office of Mental Health to promulgate regulations
governing the quality of care and treatment.
(f) Section
33.04 of the Mental Hygiene Law
establishes requirements for the application of restraint in facilities under
the jurisdiction of the Office of Mental Health.
(g)
42 CFR section
482.13(e) and (f) establish
standards governing the use of restraint and seclusion in hospitals as a term
and condition of participation in the Federal Medicaid program.
(h)
42 CFR sections
483.356,
483.358,
483.360,
483.362,
483.364,
483.366,
483.368,
483.370,
483.372,
483.374 and
483.376
establish standards governing the use of restraint and seclusion in psychiatric
residential treatment facilities providing inpatient psychiatric services for
individuals under age 21 as a term and condition of participation in the
Federal Medicaid program.
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