AI-assisted research summary: This section defines key terms used in the act, including center, department, facility, licensee, provider, secretary, and several types of care facilities and services.
39-2002. Definitions. As used in this act, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section: (a) "Center" means a community mental health center or crisis intervention center. (b) "Community mental health center" means a center organized pursuant to article 40 of chapter 19 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or a mental health clinic organized pursuant to article 2 of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. (c) "Crisis intervention center" means an entity that is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, equipped to serve voluntary and involuntary individuals in crisis due to mental illness, substance abuse or co-occurring conditions, and that uses certified specialists. (d) "Department" means the department for aging and disability services. (e) "Facility" means any place other than a center or hospital that meets the requirements as set forth by regulations created and adopted by the secretary, where individuals reside and receive treatment or services provided by a person or entity licensed under this act. (f) "Hospital" means a psychiatric hospital. (g) "Individual" means a person who is the recipient of behavioral health, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or other disability services as set forth in this act. (h) "Licensee" means one or more persons or entities licensed by the secretary under this act. (i) "Licensing agency" means the secretary for aging and disability services. (j) "Other disabilities" means any condition for which individuals receive home and community based waiver services. (k) "Provider" means a person, partnership or corporation employing or contracting with appropriately credentialed persons that provide behavioral health, excluding substance use disorder services for purposes of this act, intellectual disability, developmental disability or other disability services in accordance with the requirements as set forth by rules and regulations created and adopted by the secretary. (l) "Psychiatric hospital" means an institution, excluding state institutions as defined in K.S.A. 76-12a01, and amendments thereto, that is primarily engaged in providing services, by and under the supervision of qualified professionals, for the diagnosis and treatment of mentally ill individuals, and the institution meets the licensing requirements as set forth by rules and regulations created and adopted by the secretary. (m) "Psychiatric residential treatment facility" means any non-hospital facility with a provider agreement with the licensing agency to provide the inpatient services for individuals under the age of 21 who will receive highly structured, intensive treatment for which the licensee meets the requirements as set forth by regulations created and adopted by the secretary. (n) "Residential care facility" means any place or facility, or a contiguous portion of a place or facility, providing services for two or more individuals not related within the third degree of relationship to the administrator, provider or owner by blood or marriage and who, by choice or due to functional impairments, may need personal care and supervised nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations, and which place or facility includes individual living units and provides or coordinates personal care or supervised nursing care available on a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week basis for the support of an individual's independence, including crisis residential care facilities. (o) "Secretary" means the secretary for aging and disability services. (p) "Services" means the following types of behavioral health, intellectual disability, developmental disability and other disability services, including, but not limited to: Residential supports, day supports, care coordination, case management, workshops, sheltered domiciles, education, therapeutic services, assessments and evaluations, diagnostic care, medicinal support and rehabilitative services. History: L. 2016, ch. 105, § 2; L. 2017, ch. 77, § 16; July 1.