55 Pa. Code § 5210.21 - Staffing and personnel
(a)
Program director. The program director shall be a mental
health professional and have a minimum of 2 years of post-graduate clinical
experience.
(b)
Staff/patient ratio. Adult partial hospitalization programs
shall have a minimum of one full-time equivalent (FTE) clinical staff member to
every six patients. Staff/patient ratio is to be determined on the basis of the
designed program capacity, such as, a program with a program capacity of 30
would require five FTE staff. When there are changes in the program capacity,
appropriate staffing changes shall be made as required. Staff should be of
appropriate disciplines and shall include at least one member, other than
program director, who is a mental health professional or one member who is a
psychiatric nurse. All clinical staff time devoted specifically to the partial
program including that of the program director and medical staff shall be
included when calculating patient/staff ratio.
(c)
Psychiatric staff. Adult
partial hospitalization programs shall have a minimum of 2 hours of assigned
psychiatric time per week for every five patients of program capacity. This is
to ensure adequate care and supervision for patients in the partial
hospitalization program.
Notes
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