March 30, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Meisner, Tobocman, Accavitti, Leland, Kolb, Anderson, Mortimer, Sheltrown, Alma Smith, Vagnozzi, Donigan, Plakas, Farrah, Gleason, Cushingberry and Zelenko and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled
"Mental health code,"
by amending section 206 (MCL 330.1206), as amended by 1995 PA 290.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 206. (1) The purpose of a community mental health
services
program shall be is to provide a
comprehensive array of
mental health services appropriate to conditions of individuals who
are located within its geographic service area, regardless of an
individual's ability to pay or medicaid status. The array of mental
health
services shall include available to an individual who
qualifies for priority service consideration includes, at a
minimum, all of the following:
(a)
Crisis stabilization and response including a 24-hour, 7-
day
per week, crisis emergency service that is prepared to respond
to
persons experiencing acute emotional, behavioral, or social
dysfunctions,
and the provision of inpatient or other protective
environment
for treatment.
(b)
Identification, assessment, and diagnosis to determine the
specific
needs of the recipient and to develop an individual plan
of
services.
(c)
Planning, linking, coordinating, follow-up, and monitoring
to
assist the recipient in gaining access to services.
(d)
Specialized mental health recipient training, treatment,
and
support, including therapeutic clinical interactions,
socialization
and adaptive skill and coping skill training, health
and
rehabilitative services, and pre-vocational and vocational
services.
(e)
Recipient rights services.
(f)
Mental health advocacy.
(g)
Prevention activities that serve to inform and educate
with
the intent of reducing the risk of severe recipient
dysfunction.
(h)
Any other service approved by the department.
(2)
Services shall promote the best interests of the
individual
and shall be designed to increase independence, improve
quality
of life, and support community integration and inclusion.
Services
for children and families shall promote the best interests
of
the individual receiving services and shall be designed to
strengthen
and preserve the family unit if appropriate. The
community
mental health services program shall deliver services in
a
manner that demonstrates they are based upon recipient choice and
involvement,
and shall include wraparound services when
appropriate.
(a) Treatment and support, that includes, at a minimum, all of
the following:
(i) Clinical assessment, diagnostic, planning, and therapeutic
services.
(ii) Crisis response and stabilization that is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week.
(iii) Inpatient care.
(iv) Alternatives to or step-downs from inpatient care.
(v) Services for maintaining community tenure.
(vi) Services promoting community inclusion and integration,
including, among other subelements, the components of supported
employment and supported educational assistance.
(vii) Psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery programming.
(viii) Transportation assistance.
(b) Referral to and coordination and collaboration with other
health care and human service systems as needed to access medically
necessary service covered by this section.
(c) Consumer and family services, including, at a minimum,
consumer orientation and involvement, family information, mental
heath advocacy, and mechanisms for consumer appeals, grievances,
and rights.
(2) The department shall publish annually, list on its
website, and include in its contracts with community mental health
services programs all of the following:
(a) The subelements of the service categories specified in
subsection (1).
(b) The service selection guideline principles recommended by
the Michigan mental health commission in its October 2004 report.
(c) A statement of the acceptable components of the service
term known as "community crisis stabilization".
(d) Standards and protocols for community mental health
service programs to follow in each of the following areas:
(i) Case-finding outreach and screening activities,
differentiated as appropriate by demographic, socioeconomic, or
cultural considerations.
(ii) Linkage of individuals and service plans to other
community resources for care and human service assistance,
including, but not limited to, federally funded, qualified health
centers and children's screening programs.
(e) Categories of minors and adults eligible for primary and
secondary prevention initiatives related to special risk factors
for emotional disturbance or mental illness and their consequences.
(3) An individual who has qualified for priority service
consideration in any community mental health services program
retains that qualification over time for any medically necessary
service in the array established in subsection (1) in any other
community mental health services program.