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2001 SESSION

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SB 1158 Restructuring of mental health care system; study status.

Introduced by: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Restructuring of mental health care system. Provides for targeted facility restructuring of the mental health care system, giving the Commissioner the authority to close Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute by July 1, 2002, Piedmont Geriatric Hospital by July 1, 2006, Catawba Hospital by July 1, 2006, and the inpatient geriatric services at Eastern State Hospital by July 1, 2004. The Commissioner is authorized to relocate rehabilitation services from Eastern State Hospital to a site more central to the current geographical regions served by the hospital, provided that there is not a reduction in the services for extended rehabilitation to consumers. The Commissioner is also authorized to operate DeJarnette Center as a public facility for youth requiring services under the Comprehensive Services Act (CSA). The bill gives the Commissioner the authority, with the approval of the Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to make any necessary decisions and enter into any necessary contracts and other agreements relative to mental health care system restructuring and state mental health facility closures that may have the effect of closing state facilities or programs or beds within state facilities; converting the use of facilities; changing the nature of the services currently provided in state mental health facilities; selling state facility land and buildings; or otherwise providing for the maximum protection, safety and appropriate care and treatment of consumers and the well-being of state facility employees. The Commissioner shall authorize the delivery of acute care inpatient psychiatric services in local community hospitals and provide for the transfer of consumers from geriatric inpatient mental health services in state mental health facilities to community gero-psychiatric residential placements under certain conditions. The bill calls for an amendment to the State Medical Assistance Plan for community gero-psychiatric residential services. The bill also calls for the Commissioner to create a Gero-Psychiatric Behavioral Health Institute. Finally, the Commissioner shall develop an operational model, in collaboration with representatives of the CSA program, local governments and other key stakeholders, to convert Dejarnette Center to a CSA residential facility and shall report the results to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees on or before September 30, 2001.


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